MPD announced Monday that a 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the November 2011 shooting death of Ronald Deacon Smith.
The man, identified by police as Dwayne Williams, is suspected of first-degree murder while armed, police say.
Smith was found at around 5:18 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the head in the 1100 block of 21st Street Northeast on November 14, 2011. A second man was also wounded in the shooting.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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Judge Karen Howze ordered 35-year-old Mark Kenyatta Bowser Jr. held Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection to the stabbing death of Tracy Womack.
Womack was found on Sept. 20 in her home in the 4600 block of Benning Road Southeast, covered in blood with multiple stab wounds, charging documents say.
At the hospital, documents say, Womack was seen with multiple stab wounds, including wounds to the face, neck, chest, abdomen, both arms, and both hands.
A witness who was inside Womack’s apartment told police that Bowser entered the apartment uninvited that night, documents say.
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Lennard Sweeney, 23, was held Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder while armed in connection to the stabbing death of Edward Eugune Hall Jr..
Hall was found On Sept. 9 in the 4000 block of 1st Street Southeast, bleeding from the abdomen, charging documents say. Before falling unconscious, Hall told officers, “I was robbed by two males.”
An autopsy later found that 38-year-old Hall was stabbed three times: once to the chest, once to the stomach, and once to the right side abdomen.
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MPD announced Sunday that a 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of 39-year-old Tracy Womack.
The man, identified by police as Mark Kenyetta Bowser Jr., is suspected of second-degree murder while armed, police say.
Womack was found in the 4600 block of Benning Road Southeast at around 1:32 am on September 20.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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In brief:
Two homicides were reported in D.C. this week:
A judge ruled Saturday there was not enough evidence to hold Yvonne Simms is suspected in connection with the stabbing 49-year-old Kenyatta Jordan, her husband. Simms remains charged with second-degree murder while armed, despite her release.
Frances Lyles, 25, was arrested and held in connection with the June death of 3-year-old Xavier Lyles. Charging documents say Lyles told police she left her apartment for approximately 20 to 30 minutes the night before her son died, but believed that her boyfriend must have hurt Xavier while she was gone.
Christopher Fields, 33, was arrested in connection with the 2013 shooting death of Devar Battle, but he was held on a lesser weapons charge, not murder.
A judge found probable cause Thursday in the case against Tyrone Height and James Young for the shooting death of Willard Carlos Shelton. MPD Detective Paris White testified that Young told police he was “going through hard times and needed money,” so he and three other individuals planned to rob Shelton by luring him with fake drugs.
Brandon Miller was sentenced to 7 years in prison for the shooting death of Jamal Coates. As a cooperating witness, Miller testified at the trial of his former co-defendants that he drove three of them to the area of a funeral on U Street Northwest, where two men shot Coates.
The trial of Demonta Chappell was delayed Monday after his defense team failed to submit their DNA evidence before the start of trial. His trial for the death of 26-year-old Stevann Moorer is now expected to begin Monday.
MPD announced Saturday that police arrested 23-year-old Lennard Sweeney on suspicions of first-degree felony murder while armed in connection with the stabbing death of Edward Eugene Hall Jr.
Lennard Sweeney, 23, was arrested Friday on suspicion of first degree felony murder while armed in the death of Edward Eugene Hall Jr, police said Saturday.
Hall, 38, died from on Sept. 10 a stab wound the night before. He was found at approximately 11:07 pm, Sept. 9, at the intersection of 1st and Brandywine Streets Southeast.
MPD’s full press release on Sweeney’s arrest is below:
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Tracy Womack, 39, was killed in an apparent stabbing overnight Saturday.
Police found Womack, from Southeast DC, in the 4600 block of Benning Road Southeast.
MPD’s full press release is below:
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This guest column comes from Doris D. Bishop, uncle of Edward Eugene Hall, who was killed on September 9 in a stabbing at the intersection of 1st and Brandywine Streets Southeast.
Dear Laura,
I am overwhelmed, stunned, shocked, by the shear number of senseless murders that happen here in our Nation’s Capitol each year. This is one of the most important cities in the world, but we have not learned how to protect our youth against these senseless atrocities. We need to get our young people jobs, decent housing, and out of our overpopulated prison systems, and into colleges. Too many of our 20-40 year males are being slaughtered on our city streets.
Just yesterday, I had to bury my nephew Mr. Edward E. Hall, Jr., who was robbed, stabbed, and died early Wednesday morning at the hospital on September 10, 2014. The whole family gets robbed over and over again, because he is not here anymore—it leaves a hole the size of the Grand Canyon in our hearts, as you can well imagine. The saddest part of this story is that it robs his 5 children of being with a caring, loving, and nurturing dad. He has three small children – 3 month old Elijah, 3 years old Destiny, and Chance (4), Egypt (12), and Deona (18).
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Each week, Homicide Watch brings you a list of upcoming hearings in the cases we follow. All hearings are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted. To add an item to the listing, email homicidewatchdc@gmail.com. To see scheduled court hearings beyond next week, see our calendar.
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A judge ordered Christopher Fields held Friday for an unlawful possession of a firearm, but not the second-degree murder charge MPD arrested him for Wednesday.
Devar Battle was found with gunshot wounds on Sept. 28, 2013, in the 3000 block of 30th Street Southeast at around 12:40 a.m. He later died at a local hospital.
According to court documents, MPD suspects Fields in Battle’s death. In a police interview, Fields denied both his involvement in the shooting and having a gun that night. Read more
