In brief:
- Garrett Armand White, a 25-year-old Northwest DC man, was stabbed to death in the 5400 blk of Georgia Avenue, NW Sunday.
- A previously unidentified shooting victim was identified as Ronnie Speight, a 20-year-old Northwest DC man.
- A fatal shooting early Monday morning on Morse Street NE claimed the life of 28-year-old Keith Leon Turner, of Capitol Heights, MD.
- Fifteen year old Isaiah Harriswas killed in a shooting near Truxton Circle Monday night. His 14-year-old friend was also shot, but survived. Eugene Kelly, 26, was arrested later in the week in connection with Harris’ death. In charging documents prosecutors allege that Kelly was attempting to avenge his brother’s murder.
- Ronald Page pleaded innocent to the shooting death of his stepson, Nicholas Satcher, in Northeast DC in January. Page is charged with second-degree murder in the case.
- Alonzo Vaughn was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the October 2007 murder of 20-year-old William Bates.
- Charles Coates was ordered held in the shooting death of his cousin, Eddie Leonard Jr., who was killed in Northeast DC in February. Prosecutors allege Coates may have killed Leonard for $200, money he needed to pay a cable bill.
- Lamont Warren, 36, was stabbed to death in Northeast DC early Thursday morning. Patricia Cave, 49, was arrested in connection with the murder.
- Monquel Nathan Cook, 21, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of felony murder while armed in the shooting death of 47-year-old Michael Milton Wilson in August 2010.
- Investigators determined that there is not enough evidence to pursue criminal charges in the death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed outside the DC9 nightclub, closing the investigation.
- A shooting at McKinley Tech High School’s parking lot Friday evening killed one man, whom friends identified as Ralph Thomas, a 36-year-old Camp Springs, Md. man.
In brief:
- George White, a 48 year-old Southeast DC man, was found stabbed to death last Friday afternoon in Congress Heights.
- Ebony Franklin‘s father, Rodney McIntyre, was arrested on suspicion of killing her. He is being held without bond and is expected in court July 7 for a preliminary hearing.
- Kendrick Phillips, 19, was captured by District police Thursday. He had been on the run since mid-April and is charged with the murder of 16-year-old Deonte Payton.
- Justin Navarro was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2009 murder of Kevin Massey.
- An unidentified man shot late Tuesday night near 34th and D Streets in Southeast DC died Wednesday of his injuries.
- Paul Hanson Johnson, 27, was arrested Wednesday in connection with a 2007 homicide that took the life of Gregory Lamont Edwards in Southeast DC. He is suspected of first degree murder while armed in the case.
- An unidentified man was shot and killed in Deanwood Thursday afternoon. MPD has asked for the public’s help in identifying the man. They said he 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 and his neck. They read “RIP Pluck,” “Wease,” Lifes a Gamble” and “KAT” with a halo etched above the letters.
- Julius Johnson, a 24-year-old DC man, was sentenced to 28 years of incarceration for the 2005 shooting death of James Cousart.
- Angela Hernandez-Rivera, 23, and Peiro F. Hernandez, 24, were each sentenced to 40-year prison terms for killing a couple in their Northwest DC home in November 2008. Both were found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder in the case.
In brief:
- 32-year-old Ervin Lamont Griffin was shot and killed last Friday night in the 1200 block of 18th Place NE.
- 30-year-old Junon Tyree Snead was also shot and killed last Friday night His murder occurred in the 3700 block of Jay St. NE.
- Damon Sams pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of 21-year-old Ashley McRae in September 2010.
- 46-year-old Glenn M. Bailey was fatally stabbed Wednesday in a parking lot near 7th and Edgewood Streets NE. 30-year-old Damien Pannell has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in the case.
- The D.C. medical examiner’s office has lost its national accreditation, which will make the prosecution of criminal cases — including homicide — more difficult in the District.
- Phillip Crooms was arrested on first-degree murder charges in connection with the homicide of Delonte Butler in September 2010.
In Brief:
- A 15-year-old girl accused of killing 18-year-old Anacostia High School student Garey Gordon pleaded “involved” to involuntary manslaughter charges in the case, HWDC learned this week. The plea is the equivalent to a guilty plea in adult courts.
- Body parts found in New York earlier in the month were identified as belonging to Jessica Taylor, a woman who was 20-years-old when she was reported missing from DC in 2003. Her torso was found that same year and identified as hers.
- Jermaine Anderson, a 19-year-old NE DC man, was shot Sunday and died of his injuries. He was shot at about 1 a.m. in the 1800 block of Central Place NE.
- Robert Givens, 18, pleaded innocent this week to charges that he shot and killed 19 year-old Sean Robinson in Adams Morgan in August. He was indicted on a charge of first degree murder in the case.
- Vernon McRae was sentenced last week to five years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of his stepfather, Michael Washington, during a drunken argument in October, Homicide Watch D.C. learned this week.
- Moeconi Crutchfield, a 30-year-old Southeast D.C. man was shot and killed Wednesday night behind a pizza joint in the 2400 block of Minnesota Ave., SE.
- D.C. police officially classified the 1999 death of Joyce Chiang, an Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyer, as a homicide. However, police said they did not have enough evidence to prosecute anyone in the case, and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the case was considered closed.
In Brief:
- This year has been especially dangerous for people 21 and younger in D.C. While there were about as many homicide victims in the first four months of 2011 as the same period last year, 13 victims in DC this year have been 21 or younger. Read how that compares to last year’s homicides and see an interactive timeline of youth homicides, here.
- Alphonzo Epps, a 20-year-old Southeast D.C. man, was stabbed to death near Fort Stanton Park on Tuesday night. No arrests have been made in that case. Read about the incident, and memories of Epps, here.
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In Brief:
- Judge William Jackson refused to compel authorities to search for the body of Latisha Frazier, a D.C. woman missing since August and believed have been killed and buried in a Virginia landfill. A defense attorney in the case had argued that finding the body is critical for his client’s defense.
- Rafael Briscoe of Southeast, DC, was killed by D.C. Metropolitan Police officers in a shooting. He is the third person to die in a D.C. officer involved shooting this year.
- Thomas Glenn Lipscomb, a 49-year-old Northeast D.C. man, was found dead of apparent blunt force injuries inside a home in the 3400 block of Minnesota Ave., NE.
- Santos Jobel Martinez Umansor, a 23-year-old Northwest D.C. man, was found dead of apparent blunt force injuries in Adams Morgan midday Sunday.
- Students at HD Woodson Senior High School remembered slain teen Raheem Jackson with a poetry slam. The winners were: For written poetry, Ebonie Davis, Dion Wheeler and Shanita Wilson; and for performance poetry, Ebonie Davis, Queen Dews and Shanita Wilson.
- Deon Thornton was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for the stabbing death of his brother, Derrick Thornton, in Adams Morgan in February. The Thornton brother’s family had asked for leniency in the case and Judge William Jackson’s sentence represents the shortest possible prison term for the charge.
- Carlese Hall, 31, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the stabbing death of her seven-year-old daughter in December 2008.
- Deangelo Foote, 21, was sentenced to 50 years of incarceration for the shooting death of a teenager who had tried to stop him from robbing another person on the street.
In Brief:
- Sonya Lynch was found stabbed to death in Anacostia Park Sunday night. No arrests have been made.
- Deandra Williams was sentenced to 90 years in prison for the 1999 shooting deaths of Duane Hicks and Passion McDowney in a car in Northwest D.C.
- Terrence Desean Smith was shot ant killed in Columbia Heights Monday night. No arrests have been made.
- An 18-year-old recently kicked out of an alternative school is a “person of interest” in Raheem Jackson‘s killing, the Washington Examiner reported.
- Bernard Gayles was sentenced to 12 years and three months in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of 54-year-old Nathaniel Hall in 2009.
- A total of thirty new charges were added to the cases against five young people accused in last year’s violent South Capitol Street shooting.
- Alexis Pineda was ordered held on substantial probability in the shooting death of Jose Hernandez-Romero at a downtown D.C. bar on March 7.
- Ronald Taylor, an ex Metrobus driver, was indicted by a Grand Jury on a charge of negligent homicide. He is suspected of running a red light and crashing into a taxi carrying Bartlett Tabor, a California man, in 2008.
- Marcus Silver was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the shooting death of Shadawnchea Gardner.
- Charles Monroe Coates was ordered held on suspicion of first degree murder in the shooting death of Eddie A. Leonard Jr. in a robbery behind a fastfood joint on Benning Road in Northeast D.C.
- James Speaks was ordered held in the death of Shonell “Chris” Corriea after Judge Gerald Fisher found substantial probability in the case. Speaks’ attorney, however, pointed to recently killed Kevin Washington as a potential suspect.
In Brief:
- Chamontae Walker was arrested on suspicion of first degree murder while armed on Friday in the shooting death of Darrel Hendy in September 2010.
- Kirk Garnes was found dead in Lamond Riggs in an apparent homicide.
- Kevin Benbow, 17, was charged as an adult in the November 2010 shooting death of Jinnell McQueen.
- Joshua Andrews, a Southeast D.C., man was arrested in connection with the shooting of Darond Lucas, 17, last June.
- A string of shootings–and two stabbings–unfurled across D.C. late Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, killing three or four people, according to various sources.
- A Thursday night shooting killed Raheem “Gunna” Jackson, a 16-year-old Congress Heights boy.
- Donald Crosland was ordered held in the death of Ricardo Minger when the judge found substantial probability in the case.
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