Homicide Watch D.C.

UPDATED: A woman found stabbed to death in Anacostia Park Sunday night was identified by a friend today as Sonya Lynch.

The Washington Times reports that Lynch, 46, was found fatally stabbed in the parking lot of the Anacostia Park Skating Pavilion at about 9:50 p.m.

According to a comment left yesterday on Homicide Watch, Lynch was a mother and grandmother.
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Metro Police confirmed in an email to Homicide Watch this morning that the victim of a shooting in Anacostia early Saturday morning is 18-year-old Antonio Wade of the 5700 block of Blaine Street NE.

Wade was found inside a car in the 1700 block of 14th Street SE with a gunshot wound at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11. D.C. Fire and EMS transported him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Four other people were found shot near where Wade was found, police said. There is no word on their conditions.Read more

A Metro Police spokeswoman said this morning that there is no new information to release in Saturday’s Anacostia shooting, including the identity of the man who was killed.

Homicide Watch received a tip yesterday that that person is Antonio Wade.

Officer Tisha Gant said the public information office had not received any additional information on the case since the original report on Dec. 11 and could not confirm the victim’s identity.

Here’s Metro Police’s original release:

Multiple Shooting Incidents in the Sixth District
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating multiple shootings that led to a fatality.Read more

Homicide Watch D.C. received a tip this morning that the deceased victim in a shooting Saturday that left one person dead and four injured is Antonio Wade. Metro Police have not released the victim’s identity. Homicide Watch has a call in to their media line seeking more information and has not had confirmation that the tip we got is correct.

Facebook and Twitter R.I.P posts from D.C. residents are mentioning an Antonio Wade, who died Saturday, according to the posts.

We will update this post as more information becomes available. If you have information to share, please leave a comment or email homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com.

DC Fire and EMS responded early this morning to a shooting in Southeast D.C. that injured at least four people. Others in D.C. tweeted about sounds of gunshots and a shooting at a house party that injured several people and killed one. I contacted Metro Police in the Sixth District for more information.

Update 12:10 p.m.: The Washington Post gets some details:

Officers responded at about 2:30 a.m. to a report of shots fired the 1700 block of 14th St. SE and found a man with apparent gunshot wounds, a police spokesman, Officer Hugh Carew, said Saturday. The man was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, Carew said.

While officers were on the 14th Street scene, a report came in of gunshot victims a couple of hundred feet away, in the 1400 block of Ridge Place SE. There, officers found three people with gunshot wounds who were transported to the hospital, Carew said. Another person shot in that incident went to the hospital separately, Carew said.

The Washington Examiner is also watching the story.

Does anyone know more? Send tips to homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com or leave in comments. Thanks. I’ll try to follow this through the day.
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