In brief:
Five people were killed in DC this week:
- Antonio Jerome Williams, 23, a Northwest DC man, was fatally shot last Saturday in Columbia Heights. A juvenile male was also injured in the shooting. Earlier in the day, Jason Alexander Murphy, 30, of New Carrollton, Md, was fatally shot in Southeast DC. Police say Murphy was found unconscious behind the 1300 block of Savannah Street by police who were responding to a call for a shooting.
- Matias Molina, 49, was found dead of an apparent stabbing in Rock Creek Park Monday evening. His body was found by a resident near the intersection of Beach Drive and Joyce Road.
- Donald Ray Brown, 28, was fatally shot in Southwest DC Wednesday. A juvenile female was also injured in that shooting.
- Kenneth Guytrell Sweet, 30, was fatally shot early Saturday morning in Southeast DC.
David Jamal Wilson pleaded innocent to charges of second-degree murder while armed and second-degree theft in connection with stabbing death of his roommate, 68-year-old Howard Venable Jr.
Cedric Spicer pleaded innocent to first-degree murder and related weapons charges in connection with the February 2013 death of Joseph Hardin.
A 21-year-old DC man who pleaded guilty in May to participating in a 2009 shooting that killed a 15-year-old bystander was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Judge Karen Howze ruled that there was enough evidence to hold Carlos Parks in connection with the the June shooting death of 25-year-old Tywayne Thompson.
A shootout at a Southeast DC apartment complex that killed community activist Timothy Delonte Dawkins may have had another target. At a preliminary hearing, MPD Detective Michael Murphy testified that video captured by a surveillance camera at the apartment complex showed two men exchanging gunfire and Dawkins falling to the ground. “They seemed to be shooting at each other,” Murphy said. “I don’t know if the decedent was the intended target.”
A jury that has been deliberating for more than two weeks in a DC murder case was excused Thursday morning after the judge in the case decided to remove one juror from the group. It is the third time a juror has been dismissed from service in the case, which began June 25.
Joshua Mebane, one of two teens suspected in the shooting death of a D.C. taxi driver, was arraigned Friday on two counts of murder in connection with the shooting death of 44-year-old Quadar Muhammad. Mebane pleaded innocent to all charges and remains held pending a status hearing October 31.
Muquan Cawthorne pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed, armed robbery and a related weapons offense Friday in connection with the stabbing death of 18-year-old Olijawon Emmanuel Griffin. Prosecutors dropped initial charges of felony murder, conspiracy and assault.
