Crime Alarms. Minors were among those struck in two separate D.C. shootings Tuesday evening, one in Mount Pleasant and the other in Shaw, where a 5-year-old was wounded. Both leading mayoral candidates expressed outrage, which wouldn’t be news except that Janeese Lewis George had previously been pilloried for her understated response to another underage shooting. This time, the second paragraph of her statement calls for “holding people accountable.”

GOP Menaces MPD. The House Oversight Committee — last seen trying to ban D.C.’s traffic cameras — wants city police to cough up a report about whether the department falsified crime stats. “Recently, the Committee was made aware that MPD’s Internal Affairs Department’s investigation has been completed and included substantiated claims against individuals in MPD leadership positions,” chair James Comerwrote interim chief Jeffery Carroll. This is not an obscure data story: Crime stats, which could either prove or rebut Donald Trump’s claim to have cleaned up D.C., could also cause the next explosion between the District and Congress.

State Dinner Tea Leaves. Most presidents at least try to have bipartisan guests at a state dinner. But in a break with traditional Beltway socializing, the invite list for this week’s meal honoring King Charles was conspicuously Democrat-free. It did, however, include Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos. And while it also didn’t feature elite Beltway-media journalists who work for legacy outlets like the one Bezos owns, the editors of the New York Post and Newsmax made the cut.

Local hero alert. D.C.’s own Hailey Baptiste, 24, upset the world’s top women’s tennis player at the Madrid Open. Get to know her: She grew up near Rock Creek Park and used to sneak through the back fence to watch the Citi Open at the nearby tennis center.

Finally: Found it! I’m a bit late, but I’ve located the absolute weirdest take on the White House Correspondents’ Association shooting: “Dudes rock.” A first-person account in Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, celebrates the Beltway masculinity of the dinner guests. “There was an assemblage of good men who embodied the best of the masculine traits: calm, humor, dependability, protection, chivalry, and knowing, offhand, an oddly specific level of detail regarding Secret Service procedures for an active shooter,” declares writer Suzy Weiss, Bari’s sister.

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Though Washington is actually named for a person, the names of our city’s great avenues are pretty much monopolized by states. This isn’t to say we don’t have people’s names on any roadways: All those smaller roads that cross D.C. once the letter-streets end had to be named for someone! It’s just that, oftentimes, those someones are lost to history.

Until now. Welcome to the first edition of City Cast’s namesake series. First up: Ellicott Street, a quiet Northwest thoroughfare that runs, with a few interruptions, from American University Park down to Rock Creek Park. But who was Ellicott?

A pretty interesting guy, it turns out: Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) was the land surveyor who worked for Pierre L’Enfant, the man who laid out America’s new capital. When his prickly French boss got fired, Ellicott took over. Along with Benjamin Banneker, he’s best known for having laid out the boundary stones that marked the original 10-mile-by-10-mile District of Columbia — and that today lend their name to a popular bar in Bloomingdale.

So if you live on Ellicott Street today, raise a glass to your progenitor.

And if you live on someone else’s street, and want to know who that someone was, drop us a line! We’ll find out for you.