Third noose in a week found in Washington

WASHINGTON — A noose was discovered in the Hillcrest neighborhood of Southeast District of Columbia on Thursday, prompting shock and anger from the mayor and residents still on edge after two other nooses were discovered in the city within the past week.

Workers found the noose hanging from a home under construction on a residential street around 5 p.m. on Thursday, D.C. police said. The location is across the street from an elementary school.

Police canvassed the largely African-American neighborhood Saturday looking for clues and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser addressed a community meeting, saying she was confident the perpetrator would be caught and city residents would not be intimidated.

D.C. Police Commander David Taylor said he has no evidence at this point linking the noose found in Hillcrest to one discovered in an exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Wednesday and another found hanging from a tree on the grounds of the Hirshhorn Museum on May 27. International Space Station.

An unmanned Falcon rocket lifted off Saturday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with a Dragon capsule that made a station delivery nearly three years ago.

Eight minutes later, the firststage booster used to launch it was back home in Cape Canaveral. Soon afterward, the refurbished Dragon was safe in orbit.