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In Brief:
- Judge William Jackson refused to compel authorities to search for the body of Latisha Frazier, a D.C. woman missing since August and believed have been killed and buried in a Virginia landfill. A defense attorney in the case had argued that finding the body is critical for his client’s defense.
- Rafael Briscoe of Southeast, DC, was killed by D.C. Metropolitan Police officers in a shooting. He is the third person to die in a D.C. officer involved shooting this year.
- Thomas Glenn Lipscomb, a 49-year-old Northeast D.C. man, was found dead of apparent blunt force injuries inside a home in the 3400 block of Minnesota Ave., NE.
- Santos Jobel Martinez Umansor, a 23-year-old Northwest D.C. man, was found dead of apparent blunt force injuries in Adams Morgan midday Sunday.
- Students at HD Woodson Senior High School remembered slain teen Raheem Jackson with a poetry slam. The winners were: For written poetry, Ebonie Davis, Dion Wheeler and Shanita Wilson; and for performance poetry, Ebonie Davis, Queen Dews and Shanita Wilson.
- Deon Thornton was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for the stabbing death of his brother, Derrick Thornton, in Adams Morgan in February. The Thornton brother’s family had asked for leniency in the case and Judge William Jackson’s sentence represents the shortest possible prison term for the charge.
- Carlese Hall, 31, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the stabbing death of her seven-year-old daughter in December 2008.
- Deangelo Foote, 21, was sentenced to 50 years of incarceration for the shooting death of a teenager who had tried to stop him from robbing another person on the street.
