One hundred and thirty one names are on Metro PD’s list of people who were killed in D.C. in 2010. Ja-Kai Wilson, just four months old at the time of death, was the city’s youngest homicide victim; Irvan Jackson, a 68-year-old Oxen Hill, Md man, was the city’s oldest.
Homicide Watch has pulled information on the cases from Metro Police press releases and reward posters, city records from the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, press reports and queries to D.C. Metro Police Spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump. The result is a spreadsheet that is not complete, but that we are satisfied gives a more complete view of how murder cases were prosecuted in 2010 as well as who died, when and where.
In October 2010 Homicide Watch D.C. launched with the commitment to bring you as much information as possible about every homicide in the District. Unfortunately we can’t go back and record each of these cases on our site; with two homicides already in 2011, and a calendar of court appearances for defendants in some of 2010’s cases, there just isn’t the time.
We encourage you to help out. There are holes in this list. If you can add a victim’s age, or are following a case and know it’s status, please help make this record complete by adding what you know. The spreadsheet is public and anyone can edit it. Or make an addition by posting a comment or emailing us at homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com.
Building this spreadsheet was a marathon. Here’s a chronological list of links following it’s creation:
We Remember
Homicide Watch D.C. | Dec 29, 2010
Who do we remember as we enter 2011? Which cases will stay with you?
Reading Homicide Watch D.C.’s Year In Review Database
Homicide Watch D.C. | Dec 29, 2010
A few hints on getting the most out of Homicide Watch D.C.’s database of homicides in the District in 2010.
MPD Says It Hasn’t Forgotten to Disclose 18 Murders
Washington City Paper | Dec 30, 2010
Is it OK not to mention a few murders? Homicide Watch DC says that the Metropolitan Police Department may have forgotten to disclose about 18 of them this year.
MPD Addresses 18 Missing Homicides in HWDC’s Year in Review
Homicide Watch D.C. | Dec 30, 2010
A big thanks to Rend Smith at City Paper for taking a look at Homicide Watch’s database of 2010 D.C. homicides and getting answers from Chief Cathy Lanier and Public Information Officer Gwendolyn Crump on what what wrong. Homicide Watch posted the database yesterday in two sheets- the first listing all 2010 homicides in the District according to Metro Police press releases, FBI press releases, and media reports, the second page pulled data from OCTO, D.C.’s office of technology. The first page listed 113 homicides, the second 131.
Names Surfacing in Unaccounted Homicides
Homicide Watch D.C. | Dec 30, 2010
We have not been able to reconcile an additional nine homicides; those are still highlighted in blue-green on the second sheet of the database. Homicides on that sheet highlighted in gold are the cases Homicide Watch was able to find releases for after Metro Police added them today. We’ve added those cases to Sheet 1 in the database and highlighted them in gold. Who are these victims? Calvin Woodland, 18; Irvan Jackson, 68; Reginald Taylor; Franklin Hill, 18; Rodney Turpin, 46; Ronald Johnson, 24; Marquice Ayers, 22; Ja-Kai Wilson, 4 months; and Dominic Dwayne Kingsbury, Jr.,18 months.
Nine Homicides Still Unexplained
Washington City Paper | Jan 4, 2011
Not to be too hard on the department, but the idea that a homicide might not have gotten a press release sends a chill. Though as far as we know, MPD isn’t obligated to issue press releases about murders, if some show up on the site and others don’t, what does that mean about the investigations those homicides undoubtedly spawned? Are they getting the attention they deserve? Or are they also missing?
Metro PD’s List of 2010 Homicide Victims
Homicide Watch D.C. | Jan 4, 2011
Metro Police Spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump e-mailed over a list of D.C.’s homicide victims and information on the remaining nine cases Homicide Watch was still having trouble finding information about. First the names Homicide Watch was not able to track down. According to Crump, those victims are: Ja-Kai Wilson, Herbert Johnson, Kourtnie Mitchell, Patricia Ann Martin, Bernard Lewis, Gregory Daniels, Vladimir Djordjevic and Dominic Simmons.
