In brief:
Two trials began this week: Kwan Kearney and Jeremy Risper are suspected in the shooting death of Jamal Wilson in Nov. 2010. A witness testified that Wilson, Kearney and Risper had been friends, but the group had fallen out after Risper and Kearney’s brother Eric testified against another friend in 2009.
Kearney has already been convicted in a separate murder, that of Joseph Alonzo Sharps, Jr.
Raymond Roseburo is on trial for killing 16-year-old Prince Okorie on Nov. 30, 2010.
Detectives said in earlier hearings that Okorie had been killed over rumors that he was testifying against Eric Foreman in the death of Catholic University student Neil Godleski, but prosecutors said this week the jury wouldn’t hear anything about a motive in the case.
Witnesses in the case testified that Roseburo shot Okorie while the two walked to the store with friends.
Jonathan T. Fullard was arrested Monday in the death of 20-month-old Keyontae Moore. Fullard has also been charged with cruelty to children in a related case.
Further mental health evaluations were ordered Wednesday for Albrecht Muth, a Georgetown man accused of first-degree murder in the death of his elderly wife, Viola Drath. Muth has been on hunger strike and recently lost the right to represent himself.
Ellsworth Colbert was ordered held in the death of his neighbor, Robert Wright. The alleged stabbing followed an argument over a “dog mess,” though detectives said this week Wright’s dog may have only walked on Colbert’s lawn, not defecated on it as previously reported.
Phillip Crooms pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, robbery and “malicious burning” in connection to the death of Delonte Butler in Sept. 2010.
Lester Wright pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of 47-year-old Howard Williams.
A double shooting in the 4200 block of Edson Place NE late Friday night killed 21-year-old Shawn Junior Ray.
A man was stabbed to death at the Library Bar and Grill near Catholic University early Sunday morning. The victim in that case has not yet been identified.
