In brief:
In crime news:
A transgender woman was found unconscious in Columbia Heights and later died; MPD has said her death may be a homicide but are awaiting an official determination from the Medical Examiner’s office.
In courts news:
Calvin Monroe pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of 27-year-old Lonnie Whitted, who was killed in the 1900 block of 18th Street SE on July 7.
Curtis Weeks and Aaron Andrews were each sentenced to forty years incarceration in the shooting death of Reggie Cook on September 25, 2009.
Terry Jimenez was ordered held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of Robert Foster Jr, who was killed in a shoot-out following the Caribbean Festival in Columbia Heights in June.
Davon Holmes, a 28-year-old Northwest DC man, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed in connection with the stabbing death of 24-year-old Marcellus Terrell Bailey on Aug. 3.
Albrecht Muth was ordered held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Viola Drath, at their Georgetown home on Aug. 12.
Irving Harris Johnson of Northwest D.C. was arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder while armed and one count of assault with intent to kill in connection with a triple shooting that killed Domonique Barber and Jimmie Lee Simmons III on July 9.
Rashid Caviness-Bey was ordered held on suspicion of felony murder in the death of Osman Al-Akbar in Columbia Heights on Aug. 17.
