In Brief:
- Two men were killed and one was injured in a shooting Saturday morning in Columbia Heights. On Twitter and Facebook, DC residents wrote messages saying “RIP Gator” and “RIP Jimmy.”
- Earlier in the week, 19-year-old Jeffrey Yarnell Covington of Upper Marlboro, Md. was killed in a shooting in Southeast DC.
- Terrell Patton, also 19, was arrested in connection with a 2009 shooting that killed 20-year-old Deuante Ray.
- Washington’s Other Monuments posted new photos of DC’s street shrines to homicide victims.
- NPR reported a story about the death of Catherine Fuller in 1984 and the new information that has prompted a DC Superior Court Judge to schedule a hearing for the case for this fall.
- Twenty-year-old Deonte J. Bryant was arrested in connection with Robert Foster Jr‘s shooting death following the Caribbean Festival in Northwest DC. Bryant is the second suspect arrested in the case. Terry Jimenez was arrested earlier.
- Kelvin Donnell Brown, 22, was killed in a shooting in Northeast DC.
- Lonnie Martin Whitted, 27, was killed in a shooting in Southeast DC.
- Three Virginia men were arrested on suspicion of killing Northeast DC man Glenn Scarborough at his home in Trinidad on June 19. Phillip Charles Swan, 19, Theodore Spencer, 21, and Terrell Antwuan Wilson, 19, are suspected of first degree murder in the case. Investigators said they believe Spencer though Scarborough had infected his mother with an STD, hastening her death from cancer.
- Damon Sams was sentenced to ten years in prison for the shooting death of Ashley McRae. He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the case. “I know a million sorries won’t ever bring her back,” he said at sentencing.
- A twenty-year-old DC man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for two murders which took place in 1998 and 1999. Cornell Scrivner pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in both cases.
- Three people involved in the murder, and crime cover-up, of Carlos Bernard Alexander were sentenced. Daquan Johnson, who was 18-year-old when he was arrested about two weeks after Alexander died, was sentenced to ten years in prison. His friend, Anthony Clark, was sentenced Thursday to eight and a half years. His mother, who pleaded guilty to lying to the Grand Jury, received a suspended sentence of two years.
