D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz found probable cause Tuesday in the case against 20-year-old Northwest D.C. man Raymond Roseboro, charged with second degree murder in the killing of 16-year-old Prince Okorie on Nov. 30.
Leibovitz declined to find substantial probability in the case against Roseboro as the government requested. In her ruling she said the “totality” of evidence was enough to find probable cause but that witnesses had not provided enough information— and that the government had not allowed specific enough questions to be asked— to rule that there was anything more than probable cause to believe that Roseboro could be tried in the case.
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The Hour, in Norwalk, Conn., is reporting that teen Prince Okorie was one of five witnesses whose accounts were used to build the government’s case against Eric Foreman, accused in the murder of Neil Godleski in Petworth Aug. 22.
NBC Washington reported earlier this month that Okorie’s friends may have suspected him of “snitching,” but Godleski’s family told the The Hour in today’s report that Okorie was a witness and that they had discussed the case with D.C. police.Read more
Chief Lanier sent the following message out via email today:
Arrest Made in the Homicide of Prince Okorie
( Washington , DC ) Detectives assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch announced today that an arrest has been made in the homicide of 16 year-old Prince Okorie.
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, at approximately 4:20 pm, units from the Fourth District responded to the 800 block of Delafield Place, NW to investigate the sounds of gunshots. Upon their arrival they located a victim suffering from gunshot wounds. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel transported the victim to a local hospital where the victim was pronounced dead.Read more
This guest post comes from Kathryn Gaglione, a friend of 16-year-old Prince Okorie who was shot and killed Nov. 30 in D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood. Metro Police have not announced any arrests in Okorie’s murder.
Tuesday evening, Nov. 30, a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in Northwest. The Washington Post’s Crime Scene blog posted four paragraphs about the shooting, and even provided a three-paragraph update a few hours later.
What the article doesn’t mention is that Prince Okorie was known and loved by many people. Not only did I work with him in a tutoring program, but I attended the same church congregation, I know his family, and I see how this tragedy is leaving those who cared about Prince in shock.
Every member of the community should be enraged by this crime. We should be up in arms about one of our children falling victim to such violence. But we’ve become too complacent, too willing to write off the death of a young man because he wasn’t an honors student, his family wasn’t well-known in the community, his death doesn’t have a “news hook.”Read more
Kathryn Gaglione, a public relations manager in Alexandria, wrote on her blog yesterday about 16-year-old Prince Okorie, who was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon in D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood.
What this article fails to mention is that Prince was known and loved by many people. Not only did I work with him in a tutoring program, but I attended the same church congregation, I know his family, and I see how this tragedy is leaving those who cared about Prince in shock.Read more
The Washington Times has run an excellent series over the past several weeks examining D.C. youths who are wards of the city and have been involved in crime.
Tonight reporters Jeffery Anderson and Matthew Cella published their latest finds: 16-year-old Prince Okorie, who was shot in the head and killed Tuesday afternoon in Petworth, had been in the care of a DYRS shelter since Nov. 9. And Ebony Franklin, the 17-year-old Prince George’s County girl whose body was found stabbed and stuffed in a trash bin in Columbia Heights on Monday, had worked with youth-outreach counselors for more than a year.
Franklin was not a ward of DYRS and Okorie, though in the care of DYRS, had not been committed to them, the Times added.Read more
