A Maryland woman licensed to carry a badge and a gun has been charged with shooting at a parking enforcement officer who was ticketing cars in a northeast D.C. neighborhood.
Police said Brigette Octavia Robertson, 30, of Capitol Heights told officers she is a special police officer working for the Department of Homeland Security when they first questioned her about the shooting. According to court documents, Robertson showed police her handgun carry permit.
The victim told police she was ticketing illegally parked cars in the 1800 block of Corcoran Street NE around 11:30 p.m. last November when a woman in a nearby apartment complex began yelling obscenities and threats at her.
The victim told police she heard a woman say, “Don’t put tickets on those cars…I know you hear me.”
Then she heard multiple shots fired. The parking enforcement officer fled to a nearby intersection where she flagged down a police officer.
Court records show police found two 10-mm shell casings and two live rounds in the parking area of the Ivy City apartment complex. Witnesses told police they saw a woman wearing a security guard's uniform and carrying a pistol in a holster. At least one witness said she heard the woman boasting that she was a special police officer shortly before the shots were fired.
At the time of the shooting, the suspect's girlfriend was not forthcoming with police, but in a subsequent interview, told police Robertson had been drinking prior to the shooting and “appeared intoxicated.” She told police she was concerned for her own safety and that Robertson fired the gun “recklessly” and was waving the gun around.
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No one was injured in the shooting. Robertson has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and was released pending a court date later this month.
Robertson's attorney declined to comment.
According to an official with the Federal Protective Service, Robertson did work for that agency briefly in 2013 as a contract employee hired by a private firm to provide support to the government agency. It’s unclear where she was working at the time of her arrest, but she was taken into custody at the Reeves Building, which houses several D.C. government agencies.
