Jeffrey Mills was sentenced to 18 years for beating Juan Antonio Paredes to death with a barbell in 2012. A jury convicted Mills, 52, of voluntary manslaughter in November. “His conduct was inexcusable,” Judge John Ramsey Johnson said at the sentencing. “I think Mr. Mills was angry that day and he took out his anger … Read more →
Jeffrey Mills was found guilty Thursday of voluntary maslaughter while armed and carrying a dangerous weapon during crime of violence in connection with the 2012 death of 45-year-old Juan Antonio Paredes. Jurors in the case delivered their verdict around 5:00 p.m. Thursday after deliberating for less than five hours. Mills, 50, was charged with first-degree … Read more →
Jeffrey Mills doesn’t deny that he attacked Juan Paredes with a steel barbell on a Saturday afternoon in January 2012, a block from Columbia Heights metro. The beating, he says, was in self-defense. “Jeffrey Mills had no intention of killing Mr. Paredes,” Andrew Crespo, Mills’ attorney, told the court in opening statements Monday, saying Paredes … Read more →
Judge William Jackson found probable cause today in the case against a DC man accused of beating Juan Paredes to death with a barbell in a busy Columbia Heights commercial area. Jeffrey Mills was arrested Jan. 14, the same day of the fatal attack, on suspicion of assault with intent to kill. Paredes died on … Read more →
Charging documents in a fatal assault case against Jeffrey Mills indicate that Mills may have lashed out in fear of being injured himself. According to the documents, Mills, a street vendor, told detectives that he was approached by Juan Paredes on Saturday afternoon and that Paredes had “threatened to cut him with a machete-shaped pocket … Read more →
UPDATED The DC Medical Examiner has determined that a man fatally beaten with a steel pole in Columbia Heights Saturday afternoon was the victim of homicide. On Thursday MPD identified the man as 45-year-old Juan Antonio Paredes. He died Sunday, MPD said. MPD did not identify a suspect in the case, saying only that a … Read more →
