Article: Bulletproof Vests Are Proliferating in D.C., P.G. Drug Areas

It was after midnight one morning when two gunmen with semiautomatic weapons burst into an auto repair shop in Northeast Washington and sprayed it with bullets, wounding one man and killing another.

As the gunmen fled down 14th Street, an off-duty D.C. Police officer-filling his car with gas at a station nearby-ordered them to stop. They turned and fired toward the officer, Clarence D. Douglas, who returned fire with his police handgun.

"The bullet hit the man's jacket, and ripples went through the clothing," recalled D.C. firearms instructor Larry Melton. "But the guy wouldn't go down. The officer knew he was hitting him because he told me that he saw the clothing waft. Then it dawned on ...

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