In brief:
Court escapee James Brewer was finally presented with a felony murder charge after being rearrested. Brewer is suspected in the shooting death of Solomon Reese inside an apartment in Southeast DC on June 27. Said his attorney, “It’s clear he was scared and frightened of being convicted of something he didn’t commit.” Later in the week, 18-year-old Stephen Bernard Page, Jr was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder while armed in the case.
A fatal shooting in Petworth killed 23-year-old David Eduardo Gonzalez, a resident of Northwest DC. No arrests have been announced in the case.
Judge William Jackson prohibited D.C.’s public defender service from representing Terry Jimenez, one of three men accused in the shooting death of Robert Foster Jr. following the Caribbean Festival in Northwest D.C. last month. Jackson said based on the government’s evidence, it’s likely that defense attorneys for Jimenez and Terrance Bush, who has been a PDS client for five years, will “invariably point the finger at the other guy.”
Transgendered woman Myles McLean, known to friends as LaShay, was killed in a shooting in Northeast DC. Mayor Vincent Gray said the murder may have been a hate crime, but MPD authorities said there was no mention of sexual orientation in a brief exchange between McLean and her attackers. No suspects have been arrested.
Robert Carter pleaded innocent to killing his 13-year-old daughter Angel Morse. He was presented with a total of 24 charges related to her shooting death this week. His attorney said Carter would likely be seeking an insanity defense in the case.
A Wheaton man awaiting a murder trial in Maryland is the subject of a grand jury murder investigation in DC. Government prosecutors said this week that Corey Yates is being investigated in connection with Darrel Hendy‘s shooting death and, if indicted, could join co-defendants Chamontae Walker and Meeko Sha Carraway at trial in September.
Nineteen-year-old Hiawatha Henry pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his seven-week-old son, Hiawatha Jackson, in August 2009.
