Homicide Watch D.C.

Note: This column normally appears on Saturdays. It is back today after a two-week absence due to some family emergencies.

In brief:

• Ronald Page was released from jail, following a preliminary hearing on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of his step-son Nicholas Satcher.
• Shawn Davis was arrested Jan. 13 on first-degree murder charges in the stabbing death of Georgetown University Hospital employee Tawanna Barnes Copeland in her Southwest D.C. apartment Dec. 7.
• The United States Attorney’s Office has promised a renewed effort to investigate unsolved murders in D.C.
• Bill Mitchell, 33, was shot to death late Wednesday night near Truxton Circle.
• Ramona Gray pleaded guilty Friday Jan. 21 in the stabbing death of Shemese Grant on Aug. 31 in a parking lot on Good Hope Road SE.

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Note: this column normally appears on Saturdays. It is running today because of the Christmas holiday.

In brief:

• Raymond Roseboro was charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Prince Okorie.
• Aaron Woodfork, a 29-year-old man, was shot and killed on Bladensburg Road in Northeast D.C.
• The death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed outside of the DC9 nightclub was ruled a homicide by the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office.
• Brookland FoodMart Manager Raj Patel was remembered throughout the week as police investigated his shooting death.
• Reginald Vance, a 39-year-old barber from Hyattsville, Md. was arraigned on first degree premeditated murder while armed charges in the shooting death of Keith Banks.
• Damon Sams pleaded innocent to charges that he shot and killed Ashley McRae in September.
• James Pone, a 20-year-old Southeast D.C. resident, was shot to death in the 700 block of Brandywine Street SE.

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In Brief:

• James Campbell of Bladensburg, Md. was killed in the 2900 block of Southern Avenue SE.
• Raymond Roseboro appeared in court on second degree murder charges in the death of Prince Okorie.
• Also this week, the family of slain Catholic University grad student Neil Godleski told local press that Okorie was a witness in the trial prosecuting their son’s alleged killer.
• The shooting victim found shot in a car near a house party in Southeast D.C. last Saturday was identified as 18-year-old Antonio Wade.
• Probable cause was found to try defendants Carl Purvis and Timothy Foreman for the death of Gregory Joyner.
• Georgetown University Hospital employee Tawana Barnes Copeland was buried, two weeks after she was found stabbed to death in her apartment.

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In Brief:

• Arrest made in the shooting death of Prince Okorie.
• A somewhat mysterious homicide reported in Southwest D.C. park.
• Kwan Kearney and Jeremy Risper will stand trial for death of Jamal Wilson.
• Tawanna Barnes-Copeland, of Southwest D.C., was stabbed to death in her apartment.
• Metro Police arrested a man on felony murder charges.
• A preliminary hearing in the death of Joseph Alonzo Sharps Jr. was delayed.
• Marvin Palencia will stand trial in death of former co-worker.
• Jerome Bailey will stand trial in death of Rico Matthews.
• A shooting early Saturday in Anacostia killed one person and wounded four more.

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In Brief:

• Two teens were killed in Northwest D.C. this week, Ebony Franklin and Prince Okorie. No arrests have been made in either case.
• Timothy Foreman was charged with the death of Gregory Joyner.
• Rickey Pharr will be tried for the death of Angelo Jones.
• Charging documents against Larnell Allen and Kwan Kearney in the death of Joseph Alonzo Sharps Jr. became available.
• HWDC’s fundraising efforts on Spot.Us earned $100

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