MPD has released a statement regarding a New York man arrested for assault on a police officer. MPD says the assault occurred in the course of a homicide investigation by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Taskforce.
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Yolanda Stone
Yolanda Stone, 30, died just before midnight Sunday, her sister, Desirae Ross said.
Stone was shot and seriously wounded Feb. 15 at her ex-boyfriend’s house in the 3300 block of Alden Pl. Northeast.
Ross said Stone had gone to the house to pick up the couple’s son, who had come home from school sick.
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MPD has identified a man killed in an exchange of gunfire with police Monday as 41-year-old Dominique Campbell of Southeast, DC.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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Reports from NBC Washington, WJLA, WUSA and other news organizations say a man walking his dogs was killed Monday night in Southeast DC after he allegedly shot at MPD officers who stopped him.
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Zachary Sims was found innocent today of the most serious charges against him, after a DC jury found that there was not sufficient evidence to believe that Sims killed 16-year-old Jamal Bell following a graduation party in June 2010.
The verdict was returned Monday, the fourth day of jury deliberations.
Sims, 19, had been charged with killing Bell and wounding two others when he fired a gun into a crowd of young people in front of him as they left a party on Georgia Avenue.
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Jurors charged with determining whether or not Zachary Sims is guilty of shooting 16-year-old Jamal Bell following a Go-Go party in Northwest DC will continue their deliberations Monday after failing to reach a verdict this week.
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It was supposed to be a celebratory night. And, until the gunshots rang out, it was.
At the Go-Go themed graduation party teens chatted, danced, and goofed off for photos with friends. A variety of neighborhood bands played in the church rec room rented for the event.
“Everybody was partying, having a good time,” a Roosevelt High School 10th grader remembered this week.
“It was noisy, like a party, there was dancing,” recalled another student.
But the party was shut down that June evening after a scuffle between two neighborhood groups broke out, and the “hyped” teens spilled out of the rec room and onto Georgia Avenue. Some started to make their way home, others lingered, chatting and drinking in a nearby McDonald’s parking lot.
Then shots rang out.
Sixteen-year-old Jamal Bell crumpled to the sidewalk.
Near him, two others lay wounded.
Today, nearly two years after that June 2010 graduation party, jurors were scheduled to begin deliberations in the case against Zachary Sims, the teen prosecutors say fired those gunshots on June 18, 2010.
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MPD Chief Cathy Lanier and US Attorney Ronald Machen are scheduled to address the media this afternoon regarding the verdict in the South Capitol murder case.
Homicide Watch will have more this afternoon.
Update: The Washington Post reports that four of the five men have been convicted of first-degree murder; the fifth was convicted of lesser charges.
Jurors in the South Capitol murder case are announcing their verdict this morning.
The announcement was still underway shortly after noon.
Look back on the key moments in the case with the roundup after the jump.
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Nathaniel Grey was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for the 2009 shooting death of Brandon Scott.
A press release from the US Attorney’s Office is after the jump.
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