Twenty-year-old Steffon Frazier pled guilty today to a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the 2008 shooting death of David Christopher Holmes.
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The first full day of jury deliberations on the South Capitol case is expected to begin today, after attorneys for both sides wrapped up their closing arguments late yesterday afternoon.
The jury will decide whether five men are guilty in the March 2010 fatal shootings of five people under age 20.
Prosecuting attorney Bruce Hegyi has urged the jury to focus on the testimony of Nathaniel Simms, who has admitted to participating in the shootings and agreed to testify in exchange for lesser charges of second-degree murder. Defense attorney Robert Acree told the jury to question Simms’s testimony, saying he lied on the witness stand.
Here is an updated look back at key moments in the case.
Updated with additional links at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
The seven men convicted of the brutal 1984 H Street murder of Catherine Fuller were in court today, the first day of a hearing on new evidence which they hope may set them free.
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Attorneys are expected to give closing arguments today in the 2010 South Capitol Street shooting, after more than eight weeks of testimony and questioning.
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WTOP’s Mark Segraves reports that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled that the death of a baby girl found abandoned and barely alive on a Northeast DC doorstep has been ruled a homicide.
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Mark Pray and Alonzo Marlow were found guilty today of the killing of two people: Crystal Washington in April 2009 and Jheryl Hodge in January 2010. Washington was killed a day before she was scheduled to testify for the government in a murder case.
Pray and Kenneth Benbow were also found guilty of the 2008 murder of Van Johnson Jr.
A press release from the US Attorney’s Office is after the jump.
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In the first quarter of 2012, 18 homicides were reported in DC, four fewer than the number reported in the same time period last year. That represents an 18 percent drop in the number of reported homicides year-to-date.
It is a small statistical sample, certainly, but law enforcement officials, attorneys, and others who watch homicide rates have remarked frequently over the past several weeks about the dip.
The 18 homicides this year, as counted by MPD, include the death of Leroy Studevant, who was found dead in Marvin Gaye Park on Dec. 31, 2011. A review of this year’s homicides also shows that slightly younger people have been affected more than last year: In 2011 the deadliest ages were 20 and 22; so far in 2012, the deadliest ages have been 19 and 21. Two children, Keyontae Osbia Moore, aged 20 months, and Kuron Rashad Hunt, who died after delivery, are also among this year’s victims. In 2011 the youngest homicide victim was 15 years old.
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From the US Attorney’s Office:
Two Men Convicted of Murder, Other Charges In 2007 Slaying in Northeast Washington - Victim Was Shot Six Times in Early-Morning Confrontation -
WASHINGTON - Curtis L. McKnight and Robert H. Pumphrey, Jr., both 23 and both of Washington, D.C., have been convicted of murder and other charges in the 2007 slaying of a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
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A Temple Hills, Md. man has been arrested in connection with a 2005 shooting in Northeast DC, MPD said.
James Presley Harris, 31, died in that shooting. Jamel Callis, 26, is suspected of first degree murder while armed, MPD said.
A press release is after the jump.
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