In brief:
Alecia Wheeler, a 42-year-old Northeast D.C. woman, was fatally stabbed in Trinidad in front of her children. Wheeler’s husband, Claude Kinney, was arrested in connection with the case and ordered held pending a preliminary hearing.
MPD took over a homicide investigation from Prince George’s County, when it was determined that murder victim Antwain Henderson was killed in D.C. before his body was found in a burning car in Prince George’s County.
Twenty-year-old Lugus Fleming of Northeast D.C. was killed in a shooting Friday night in Northeast D.C. Terrell Rashad Brent, 19, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with the case.
Kevin Clark and Donald Crosland pleaded guilty to charges that they shot and killed 17-year-old Ricardo Minger in a Southeast D.C. apartment in January.
Jerome Bailey pleaded guilty today to second-degree murder in the shooting death of Rico Matthews, whom Bailey believed was having a relationship with a woman that he also saw.
Derrell Bennett and Reginald Vance were indicted each on a charge of first-degree murder while armed in connection with the shooting death of Keith Banks in Nov. 2010.
