Violence in D.C. left three people dead this weekend, bringing the annual homicide count to 18. As Emily Babay at the Washington Examiner reports, that’s nearly 30 percent over the death toll at this time last year.
3 slayings reported in Southeast D.C.
washingtonexaminer.com | Mar 5, 2011
Three people were slain in D.C. late Friday and early Saturday, pushing the District’s homicide total up nearly 30 percent over this time last year. All of the homicides in the unusually violent night took place in Southeast Washington, east of the Anacostia River, but there are no indications that they are related, said Officer Istmania Bonilla, a D.C. police spokeswoman.
Police have arrested a suspect in one case, Bonilla said, and investigators are still seeking suspects in the other two. The slayings bring the number of homicides reported in the District so far this year to 18, according to D.C. police statistics. That’s an increase of 28.6 percent from the 14 homicides the city had recorded at this time last year.
Who are these victims?
- Bryant Morillo
- Brian Curtis Scott
- Nicholas Satcher
- Ricardo Vondell Minger
- Rashid Paul
- D’Angelo Thompson
- William Mitchell
- Demetrius Ormon Dempsey
- Latisha Frazier
- Derrick Rawls
- Derrick Thornton
- Clarence Wilson
- Lucki Pannell
- Eddie A. Leonard Jr.
- Anthony Lynn Willford
- Selina J. Knight
- Vanessa McGee
- Henry Kelly
Of those 18 cases, five have been closed with arrests:
- Ronald Page in the death of Nicholas Satcher
- Kevin Lamont Clark in the death of Ricardo Vondell Minger
- Brian Gaither, Johnnie Sweets, Anneka Nelson, Cinthya Proctor, Laurence Hassan and Lanee Bell in the death of Latisha Frazier
- Deon Thornton in the death of Derrick Thornton
- Ronald Pickett in the death of Vanessa McGee
