Deonte Bryant, 22, and Terrance Bush, 21, were each sentenced Thursday to over sixty years in prison for the 2011 Caribbean festival shooting that killed 43-year-old Robert Foster Jr. and injured two others. Judge John Ramsey Johnson sentenced Bryant to 60 years and six months and Bush to 61 years and six months, for the … Read more →
Deonte Bryant and Terrance Bush, two of the three men accused in the fatal shooting at the Carribean festival in Northwest DC in 2011, were found guilty late Friday afternoon of all charges against them including first-degree murder and assault. The third man accused in the case, Terry Jimenez, pleaded guilty last April to second-degree … Read more →
Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a first-degree murder case charging Deonte Bryant and Terrance Bush with the June 2011 Caribbean Festival shooting death of 43-year-old Robert Foster Jr. During more than two weeks of trial, prosecutors argued that Bryant and Bush attended the festival armed with the intent to shoot rival crew member Terry Jimenez. … Read more →
“They sounded like firecrackers. It was a bunch of shots, and everyone started running.” Everyone, Trevis Johnson said, but his friend Robert Foster Jr. Testifying at trial Monday, Johnson told jurors how he and Foster came to be on Gresham Place the afternoon of the Carribean Festival in June 2011 when three men exchanged gunfire, … Read more →
Prosecutors opened their case charging Deonte Bryant and Terrance Bush with the June 25, 2011 Caribbean Festival shooting death of 43-year-old Robert Foster Jr. Monday with eyewitness testimony from those near the festival when the deadly shots were fired. According to the government’s case, Bryant and Bush attended the festival armed with the intent to … Read more →
Terry Jimenez, one of three men accused of killing a bystander in a shootout at the 2011 Caribbean Festival, pleaded guilty Friday, a week before his trial was scheduled to begin. Prosecutors say Jimenez traded gunfire with rival gang members Deonte J. Bryant and Terrance Bush during the event. Jimenez and two others were wounded … Read more →
Three men, Terry Jimenez, Deonte Bryant, and Terrance Bush, pled not guilty Friday morning to charges stemming from a June shooting that killed Robert Foster Jr. The three are facing charges of first-degree murder, assault with intent to kill, and aggravated assault. They are also charged with various weapons charges related to possessing, carrying, and … Read more →
A Grand Jury yesterday returned a 24-count indictment against Terry Jimenez, Deonte Bryant, and Terrance Bush, including charges of first-degree murder, assault with intent to kill, and aggravated assault. Jimenez, Bryant, and Bush are expected to be arraigned on the charges Friday morning, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office said. Prosecutors believe that Bryant … Read more →
It was six weeks ago that Terry Jimenez first appeared in front of Judge William Jackson for a preliminary hearing in the second-degree murder case that accuses him of killing a man in armed urban warfare. On Friday that hearing was completed, and Jimenez was ordered held. Relying on video evidence presented on July 29, … Read more →
Judge William Jackson ruled Friday that there was enough evidence to try two men accused of engaging in urban warfare following the Caribbean Festival in Northwest DC in June. Said AUSA Bruce Hegyi, in order to use the urban warfare legal theory, prosecutors must prove that the parties involved were armed and ready to fight … Read more →
Judge William Jackson today prohibited D.C.’s public defender service from representing Terry Jimenez, one of three men accused in the shooting death of Robert Foster Jr. following the Caribbean Festival in Northwest D.C. last month. PDS has represented one of Jimenez’ codefendants in the case, a rival gang member, for about five years and Jackson … Read more →
A third suspect in a deadly shooting following DC’s Caribbean Festival was presented yesterday with a charge of second degree murder and ordered held pending a preliminary hearing. Terrance Bush appeared in courtroom c-10 represented by attorney Jeffrey Lewis. On Bush’s behalf, Lewis submitted to the government’s evidence for substantial probability that Bush was involved … Read more →
A third person has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Robert Foster following Northwest D.C.’s Caribbean Festival late last month. MPD announced this evening that 19 year-old Terrance Marquis Bush of Northeast D.C. is suspected of taking part in the deadly shooting and has been arrested on a charge of second degree … Read more →
This past October, Deonte Bryant was enrolled at Langston University in Oklahoma. A five hundred dollar scholarship from Ward 1 Councilman Jim Graham was helping pay his way and DYRS specialist Fred Rogers thought Bryant had a “real opportunity to change his life.” Today Bryant sits in D.C. Jail. In an email to Homicide Watch … Read more →
On June 25, Deonte Bryant and Terry Jimenez stood on opposite sides of a fight, each a member of an opposing gang. Facing off, as prosecutors tell it, the two exchanged gunfire. Jimenez was wounded. Bryant ran, the clip from his semi-automatic pistol falling to the ground as he made his escape. Today the two … Read more →
A second man has been arrested on suspcion of killing Robert Foster Jr. following DC’s Caribbean Festival Parade late last month. Twenty-year-old Deonte J. Bryant is suspected of second degree murder in the case, MPD said late Tuesday night. Nineteen-year-old Terry Jimenez was arrested and presented with a second-degree murder charge in connection with the … Read more →
Washington’s Other Monuments has new photos up of DC’s street shrines to homicide victims. Here’s a small sampling of how Isaiah Harris, Marcellus J. Darnaby, and Robert Foster Jr. have been remembered. Find more photos at Washington’s Other Monuments. Read more →
This comment of the day comes from “Hurt and Confused,” who wrote in about Terry Jimenez’ arrest following the Caribbean Festival fatal shoot-out and his connection to Lucki Pannell’s murder case. There is much more to this story than the police are saying and I hope it’s for someone’s safety. I always said it was … Read more →
A roundup of coverage of the fatal shooting following the Caribbean Festival in DC Saturday, including interviews with Robert Foster Jr’s family and more about suspect Terry Jimenez. Man Accused in Shooting Only Returned to D.C. Last Week DCist One week. That’s how long it took Terry Allen Jimenez, arrested and charged with second-degree murder … Read more →
Terry Jimenez appeared in DC Superior Court today, shackled and wearing civilian clothes but with no evidence of an injury police say he suffered in the Saturday shootout that killed Robert Foster Jr. following the Caribbean Festival in Northwest DC. Jimenez, who will be 20 years old in August, was in court to be presented … Read more →
UPDATE: Prosecutors expect Jimenez to be presented with the charge sometime after 3 p.m. today. MPD says they have arrested Terry Jimenez, a 19-year-old man injured in a shooting near DC’s Caribean Festival Saturday, on suspicion of murder, NBC Washington reports. Jimenez was identified by Councilman Jim Graham as the intended target of Saturday’s shooting … Read more →
When Columbia Heights teen Lucki Pannell was killed while “chillin” on her front porch in February, Terry Jimenez was there. This weekend, when Robert Foster was killed near the Caribbean Festival parade route, Terry Jimenez was there. DC Councilman Jim Graham says Jimenez, a 19-year-old Northwest DC man and a known gang member, was the … Read more →
MPD identified the victim of a fatal shooting in the aftermath of DC’s Caribbean Festival Saturday as 43 year old Robert Foster. MPD’s press release is below. June 26, 2011 Homicide: 700 Block of Gresham Place, NW (Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a fatal shooting which occurred in the … Read more →
A man is dead in DC after a multiple shooting during the Caribbean Festival near Howard University on Saturday afternoon. The man has not been identified. Reports the Washington Post, It appeared that the parade had largely passed when the gunfire erupted, but many people had remained near the route. Witnesses said the sound sent … Read more →
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