Homicide Watch D.C.

Two men, accused of killing Bernard Lewis as he stumbled drunk and high down a Southeast DC street, were sentenced today to four- and five-year prison terms after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Timothy Shade and Deshaun Johnson each told the court Friday morning that Lewis’s death was an accident. According to the government’s evidence … Read more →

Deshaun Johnson and Timothy Shade pleaded innocent to second degree murder today at a felony arraignment in D.C. Superior Court. The two men are accused of assaulting Bernard Lewis in Southeast D.C. on Monday, August 30, 2010. Lewis died the next day at a hospital. Officials said he had suffered blunt force injury to the … Read more →