It was a moment of anger, Stephen Barnes said, that led him to fire a gun into a car parked at a gas station, killing 24-year-old Stephon Emmanuel Way and seriously wounding a 16-year-old girl. On Wednesday he was sentenced for that crime; 20 years on a charge of second-degree murder. “I wish that you … Read more →
Stephen Barnes pleaded “guilty” today to one count of second-degree murder while armed in the Dec. 2011 shooting death of Stephon Way at a Northeast DC gas station. A 16-year-old girl was also injured in that shooting. On Friday Barnes told Judge Thomas Motley that he was carrying a .45 automatic pistol and driving a … Read more →
Stephen Barnes was ordered held today on suspicion of first-degree murder while armed in connection with a shooting that killed one man and injured a teenage girl. Charging documents in the case against Barnes allege that the victim, Stephon Way, may have been the instigator in the fatal confrontation between the men. The shooting took … Read more →
In the fifth homicide arrest in two days, Stephen Deon Barnes was arrested today in connection with the fatal shooting of Stephon Emmanuel Way. Barnes, a 22-year-old Northwest DC man, is suspected of first degree murder while armed. Way, 24, was shot at a gas station in Northeast DC on Dec. 10. A juvenile girl … Read more →
