WUSA 9 reports 14-year-old boy charged with attempted first-degree murder in connection to the shooting outside the Smithsonian National Zoo on Easter Monday has pleaded innocent. WUSA9 reports the teen’s next court date has not been scheduled.
Police say the teenager is a member of a Southwest Washington gang that had been fighting with another group, Johnson reports.
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Police say the 14-year-old shot the two members of the opposing gang in the hand and arm respectively. Both of the victims were treated and released from the hospital.
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The death of 80-year-old Lucille Proctor has been ruled a homicide, MPD announced Monday.
Proctor was found dead on February 13 inside a three story row house on the 4600 block of 4th Street Northwest after D.C. firefighters responded to a report of a house on fire at 5:50 a.m.
On April 1, 76-year-old Robert Proctor was arrested and held on suspicion of arson in the connection with the case. Police say homicide detectives are reviewing the case.
Two press releases from MPD are after the jump.
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This Comment of the Day comes from Steve, who wrote in about Curtis Mozie and the toll of violence on mental health. He writes:
I have been following C-Webb’s work for a few years now, and commend him, the heartbreak is more than I can endure. I myself can count over seventy people that I considered friends and family who died right here in DC due to violence. The tit-for-tat retaliatory cycle and just the general disregard for human life has to stop. This has been preached for decades though. When will the cycle end? Fathers need to raise their sons, but what happens when all dad knows is the gun? I like most have more questions than answers. What can we do as a community to turn this around?
In brief:
There were no murders reported in D.C. this week.
Stefon Kirkpatrick pleaded innocent Wednesday to first-degree premeditated murder while armed. Kirkpatrick, 23, remains held without bond in connection to the July 2013 stabbing death of his 22-year-old pregnant girlfriend Julisa Brittney Washington.
James Walter Yates, 29, was arrested and held in connection with the shooting death of Andre Pierce Joyner last Friday near Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School. Yates is suspected of second degree murder while armed.
Antonio Hester, 30, was ordered held without bond Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree premeditated murder while armed in connection with the January 2013 shooting death of Tracy McFadden. McFadden, 44, was found by police on Jan. 2013 outside a nightclub on the 2700 Block of Georgia Avenue Northwest, suffering from six gunshot wounds.
Albrecht Muth was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the death of his 91-year-old wife, Viola Herms Drath. Muth, 49, was convicted in January of first-degree premeditated murder with aggravating circumstances.
Judge Jennifer Anderson found probable cause that 22-year-old Carlton Maurice Johnson was involved in the double homicide of Anthony Chase and Eric Leeper on July 17, 2013 in Southeast. Johnson was arrested nearly nine months later on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder while armed.
Curtis Mozie, videographer, author and founder of The Tale of the Tape Foundation, has witnessed death and violence firsthand on the streets of D.C. for over thirty years. (Photo by Kristian Hernandez)
He ran across the street looking for help leaving a trail of blood. The 19-year-old collapsed at the entrance of the nearby Kennedy Recreation Center, where his close friend Curtis Mozie worked.
Mozie remembers seeing him laying on the floor bleeding from a stab wound to his heart as he rushed to help him. He gave the teen CPR and brought him back to life twice, but when the medics arrived it was too late. Dalontray Williams, the boy people often mistook as Mozie’s little brother, passed away in his arms.
It was one more loss for a man who has spent years documenting the violence of DC’s streets.
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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 [at] gmail.com. To see scheduled court hearings beyond next week, see our calendar.
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Ann writes about Antwan Boseman, 23, who died of multiple gunshot wounds in Southeast D.C., on August 4, 2012.
Throughout it all I MISS YOU! Baby Brother. Know that mommy isn’t the same since you been gone. Family and friends are hurting over this devastating lost. Your daughter speaks of you all the time. Words cannot express how I feel. You were a good person who didn’t bother nobody… Your Niecy Poo have her days with you being gone. Im missing you like crazy. Now rest my baby brother you in God kingdom…
Antonio Hester, 30, was ordered held without bond Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree premeditated murder while armed in connection with the shooting death of Tracy McFadden.
McFadden, 44, was found by police in Jan. 2013 outside a nightclub on the 2700 Block of Georgia Avenue Northwest, suffering from six gunshot wounds, including four to his neck. He was taken to Howard University Hospital where he died at 2:55 a.m., less than half an hour after police spotters first detected the gunfire. Read more
In July 2013, Stefon Kirkpatrick, turned himself in after police found his pregnant girlfriend Julisa Brittney Washington stabbed to death in an alley.
Kirkpatrick was indicted Wednesday on a charge of first-degree premeditated murder while armed and pleaded innocent to the charge before Judge Rhonda Winston.
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The criminal case against Albrecht Muth concluded Wednesday when Judge Russell Canan sentenced him to 50 years in prison for the death of his 91-year-old wife, Viola Herms Drath.
Muth, now 49, was convicted in January of first-degree premeditated murder with aggravating circumstances. On Wednesday, he participated in his sentencing via video conference as he lay in a hospital bed, still too weak to attend court because of his prolonged fast.
Drath’s two daughters did not address the court but provided impact statements to Judge Canan before sentencing.
“I miss my mother…her wisdom, her advice, her assessment of political developments, foreign affairs…I miss her visits to my home in California,” wrote Drath’s daughter Connie Drath Dwyer.
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