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[Music] thank you [Music] the following is an account of a horrific and violent robbery
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many news outlets covered this story what you are about to hear is comprised of articles that ran in the Washington
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Post on March 13th and 14th 2011. one article LED with the headline both victims in Bethesda yoga store attack
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were beaten and raped two men wearing masks and gloves entered in upscale yoga clothing store in
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downtown Bethesda after closing hours this weekend they killed a worker and sexually
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assaulted another officials said detectives think the attack began as a robbery about 10 pm Friday
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the assault victim who is expected to survive was found Bound in the back of the store Saturday morning
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she was hospitalized and has been talking with detectives police declined to say how the homicide
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victim identified as 30-year-old jaina Murray was killed but law enforcement sources confirmed a
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horrific bloody scene inside Lululemon athletica part of a chain of stores that began
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popping up a few years ago across the country violent crime is exceedingly rare in
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bethesda's central business district law enforcement and government officials could not recall a recent homicide we're
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all stunned no one can remember another murder in the last 20 years said Ken Hartman a local government official
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the Bethesda store sits between a stationery store and an Apple retail store that has been buzzing with its hot
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new product the iPad 2. it was unclear how long the assailants were in the store
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the two victims had closed the store at 9 pm Friday and left a short time later police said
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one of them realized that she had left something behind and didn't have the means to get back inside she called her
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co-worker who met her at the store and let her inside leaving the door unlocked detectives think that the men dressed
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all in black with faces and hands covered entered a short time later because The Intruders were covered
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police have come up with only limited descriptions with one being six foot tall and the other a little over five
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foot three according to police the following morning a female worker arrived to open
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the store she heard a faint noise in the back of the store she retreated and called a man who was outside to come
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into the store the man went in and he saw what he thought were two bodies in the back of
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the store police were called detectives believed this started out to be a robbery said Captain Paul Starks of
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the Montgomery County Police he said the noise was likely from the surviving victim who was 27 years old
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a bystander told the Washington Post that the Survivor appeared to be badly bruised
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a Lululemon regional manager was at the scene and described the two victims as great people
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detectives were still searching for Witnesses who may have been working at nearby stores
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the day after the homicide the police blocked off the sidewalk in front of the Lululemon store with yellow tape
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directing pedestrians across the street the store's large front windows were covered with sheets of paper a young
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woman who works at a nearby salad shop said Lululemon employees stopped by there for lunch they're all great peppy
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happy people and nice to talk to as for previous homicides in the area in 1989 about six blocks from the yoga
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store a gunman described as a disgruntled employee of Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank opened fire with a
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38 caliber revolver in a bank office killing three co-workers and shooting a fourth in the face before killing
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himself a year later a jeweler at a store along Wisconsin Avenue shot two men to death after a hold up the Jeweler
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ultimately was cleared of all charges the Lululemon attack was the first homicide in this area in 20 years
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and this this true crime garage [Music]