DC Crime 2 -Lesson of Seth Rich
14th August 2025
Seth Rich was murdered in July 2016 in DC Ward 5. His assailants did not take his wallet and valuables, leading to speculation that it was a planned murder of a leaker of embarrassing emails from the DNC. It generated a great deal of what turned out to be unsupported speculation and litigation. The police said it was a botched robbery which was also not entirely believable.
He had defensive wounds which, to my way of thinking, made both the planned hit and botched robbery scenarios unlikely. The killer(s) had a gun. The most efficient way to do a street armed robbery is to make the gun visible to eliminate resistance (and I say that as a former DC resident and armed robbery victim and attempted robbery victim). Nor would a planned execution involve preliminary fisticuffs. The evidence suggests to me that it was a spontaneous attempted beatdown of a white man walking at night. He was shot in the back while grappling with one of his assailants as the attack escalated and the thugs left quickly after the gunshots.
It is highly likely that it was just that pointless, vicious and mindless.