In brief:
A shooting in Northeast D.C. killed 21-year-old Dontel Price dead.
A judge ordered new mental observations for Leon Allen Smith, saying he could not be found mentally competent to stand trial at this time and needed further treatment. Smith is suspected in the stabbing death of Stephan Manuel Pool.
Reynard Cook was arrested near State College, Penn., a year after the death of Yolando Stones. Police say cook shot stone in front of their children when she tried to pick them up from his home.
In his opening statement, the attorney for Rashid Caviness-Bey argued that a fifteen-year-old, not his client, shot and killed Osman Al-Akbar.
John Bolton was sentenced to 26 years in prison Friday for the May 2011 shooting, and murder, of Christopher Fletcher.
DaQuan Tinker pleaded innocent to a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the August 2012 shooting death of Terence Robinson.