Jamar George was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for second-degree murder while armed for the shooting death of 20-year-old Ronnie Speight Jr. George, 27, pleaded guilty in February to shooting Speight eleven times in an alley off the 5100 block of Jay Street in Northeast D.C. on May 26, 2011. Family members present … Read more →
Jamar George, 27 pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder while armed in connection to the murder of 20-year-old Ronnie Speight Jr. George admitted to the fatal shooting of Speight in an alley of the 5100 block of Jay Street NE on May 26, 2011. “Yeah, that’s what happened,” George said at Friday’s hearing. According to … Read more →
Jamar George pleaded innocent Friday to the charge of first-degree murder while armed in connection with the shooting death of 20-year-old Ronnie Speight Jr. George, 25, also pleaded innocent to related weapons charges. Speight was shot dead in an alley in Northeast D.C. in May 2011; an autopsy revealed a total of eleven gunshot wounds … Read more →
Judge William Jackson found substantial probability today that Jamar George committed first-degree murder while armed in the May 26 shooting death of Ronnie Speight. Jackson based his decision on the accounts of the multiple witnesses in the case including one that spoke with Speight on the phone just hours before his death. During the phone … Read more →
The jailhouse interview of a man present when Ronnie Speight was shot dead in an alley in Northeast DC helped lead police to the man they say fired the shots that riddled Speight’s body. Jamar George, arrested at DC Jail Wednesday, was presented Thursday with a charge of premeditated first-degree murder while armed. He is … Read more →
A 25-year-old Northeast DC man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the May 2011 shooting death of Ronnie Speight Jr. The man, Jamar Delante George, is suspected of first degree murder. Speight was shot in the 5100 block of Jay Street, Northeast at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, May 26, 2011. A press release from MPD … Read more →
Funeral services for Ronnie Speight, a 20-year-old DC man shot to death in the 5100 block of Jay Street, NE last week, will be held tomorrow at First Rising Mt Zion Baptist Church in NW DC, according to Speight’s obituary. Family will receive friends on Saturday, June 4 from 9 a.m. until time of service, … Read more →
MPD has confirmed that Ronnie Deion Speight was the man killed in a shooting in the 5100 block of Jay Street NE on the afternoon of May 26, as reported earlier today by Homicide Watch. **UPDATE: Victim Identified in Homicide in the 5100 Block of Jay Street, NE (Washington, DC) - Detectives from the Metropolitan … Read more →
A Homicide Watch reader has identified a man shot to death last week as Ronnie Speight, a young DC man known to friends as “Wease.” This morning MPD Spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said the department has a possible victim ID and is waiting for confirmation from the man’s family. MPD asked for the public’s help last … Read more →
MPD is seeking the publics help in identifying a man shot dead Thursday. In a press release Friday evening, MPD said that the man is a black male with a medium complexion, approximately 16 to 20 years old, about six feet tall and weighing about 165 pounds. He also has multiple tattoos on both arms … Read more →
Homicide detectives were on the scene of a shooting in Northeast DC Thursday afternoon, after a man was critically wounded by gunfire, the Washington Post reports. The man was later pronounced dead at a local hospital, reports the Washington Times. From the Times, Officers responded to the 5100 block of Jay Street Northeast around 4:25 … Read more →
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