In brief:
Shootings in DC last weekend left two men dead: 21-year-old Alvin Allen Jr. was killed in the 3400 block of Stanton Road at about 2:50 a.m. Sunday and Frederick Booker was killed in the 4100 block of 20th Street Northeast at about 6:41 p.m.
Jurors found Karl Pugh innocent of murder Friday after two days of deliberations, freeing him of all charges in connection with the shooting death of 27-year-old Quentin Joavor Ragland. It was Pugh’s second trial; the first resulted in a hung jury.
Terry Johnson was sentenced Wednesday to 23 and a half years in prison in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Andre Jamal Wiggins. A jury convicted Johnson of second-degree murder and related weapons offenses in connection with the case in March.
Dianna Lalchan, suspected of voluntary manslaughter while armed in the shooting death of her husband, Christopher Lalchan, recieved approval from Judge Ronna Beck to be released from a halfway house while awaiting a grand jury investigation of her case.
Donte Graves rejected an informal plea offer from prosecutors Friday; he is suspected in the shooting death of 22-year-old Tyrone Joyner.
Judge Russell Canan ruled Friday that Herbert Hayes is mentally competent to stand trial for the murder of 41-year-old John Wesley Griffin. The trial is scheduled to begin June 24.
Albrecht Muth has returned to DC jail after doctors noted that his health had improved. Muth had been fasting for a period of time; Judge Russell Canan was concerned that the effects of the fasting made Muth’s health a danger to bring him to court to stand trial for the death of his wife, Viola Drath.
