A 21-year-old Hyattsville woman has pleaded guilty to killing Jason Liser in Northeast D.C. in 2009.
Takia Neeley faces up to 55 years in prison for second degree murder and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
A (reissued, corrected) press release from the US Attorneys Office is after the jump.
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MPD tonight announced in the 2008 homicides of 28-year-old Luis Zelaya.
Nelson Javier Fuentes-Portillo, a 19-year-old Northwest DC man, was arrested Monday on suspicion of first degree murder while armed and murder in the aid of racketeering and aiding and abetting.
MPD’s release is after the jump.
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A young DC man and his mother were both sentenced today for crimes connected to the fatal beating that killed Carlos Bernard Alexander, a 47-year-old man with a severe heart condition.
Daquan Johnson, who was 18-year-old when he was arrested about two weeks after Alexander died, was sentenced to ten years in prison by Judge Gerald Fisher. Johnson pleaded guilty in May to voluntary manslaughter and robbery in the case.
His mother, who gave the grand jury an untrue alibi about Johnson’s whereabouts the night of the murder and tried to convince other witnesses to lie to the grand jury, too, was sentenced to two years in prison. Her sentence was suspended on the condition that she complete two years of supervised probation.
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A twenty-year-old DC man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for two murders which took place in 1998 and 1999.
Cornell Scrivner pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in both cases.
USAO’s press release is after the jump.
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MPD today announced that Cederick Lorenzo Shuler was arrested on suspicion of first degree murder in two cases: one from 1998 and one from 1999.
Shuler appeared in court last week to be arraigned following a grand jury indictment in one of the cases that Shuler was arrested on today.
The victims were 26-year-old Renee Best and 29 year-old Edward C. Gray, both of Northwest DC.
Read MPD’s press release after the jump.
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NPR this weekend reported a story about the death of Catherine Fuller in 1984 and the new information that has prompted a DC Superior Court Judge to schedule a hearing for the case for this fall.
Reports Carrie Johnson for Morning Edition:
In the fall of 1984, in a rain-soaked alley in Washington, D.C., a street vendor found a tiny woman lying dead on the floor of a garage.
She was Catherine Fuller, a mother of six, who left home to run a quick errand and never came back. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted and killed all within sight of a busy public street.
The murder horrified and frightened the city. Over the next few months, police arrested 17 people in connection with the crime.
Now, a review by the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project is exposing doubts about the police investigation — and raising questions about whether one of the young men who was convicted really took part in the attack.
MPD announced this morning that 19-year-old Terrell Patton of Southeast DC was arrested Saturday in connection with a 2009 shooting that killed 20-year-old Deuante Ray.
Patton is the second person arrested in connection with the case. In November a person was arrested and charged with first degree murder while armed in Ray’s death.
MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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NBC Washington reports this weekend on a sad anniversary for the family of John Pernell. On Sunday it will be one year since he was gunned down at a neighborhood cookout in a botched robbery attempt. No suspects have been arrested in the case.
NBC Washington’s report is below.
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Cederick Shuler was arraigned in DC Superior Court yesterday on two murder charges, one for the 1998 killing of Renee Best and the other for the 1999 killing of Edward Gray.
Prosecutor Amanda Haines said both victims were innocent bystanders and that she expects charges to be filed in a third murder soon.
Fox5’s Paul Wagner reports on Shuler in the video below.
Mother’s Persistence Leads to Arrest in Edward Gray’s Murder: MyFoxDC.com
From the US Attorney’s Office:
District Man Sentenced to 24-Year Prison Term In February 2009 Slaying of 14-Year-Old Boy
WASHINGTON - Ransom Perry Jr., who turned 21 today, was sentenced to 24 years in prison on charges stemming from the February 2009 slaying of a 14-year-old boy, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
Perry, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty in May 2011 to charges of second degree murder while armed and robbery. He was sentenced this morning by the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
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