Update: MPD has identified the victim in this case as 23-year-old Demencio Lewis of Southeast. A press release from MPD has been added to the bottom of this post.
A man was shot and killed shortly after midnight in Southeast DC and police are searching for suspects in connection with the case, according to media reports.
Reports the Washington Post:
The shooting occurred about midnight in the 2600 block of Bowen Road SE., a few blocks from the Anacostia Metro station. Police said an adult man was pronounced dead on the scene and the four men escaped in a black Hyundai Sonata.
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More than seven months after jurors failed to reach a verdict, the retrial of James Sandidge began this week with opening statements.
Sandidge, 22, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of 20-year-old Keenan Jerel Lee on October 22, 2011, during Howard University’s homecoming weekend.
Prosecutors say that on the night of the incident, Sandidge acted with “excessive” force, not self-defense, when he shot Lee after Lee punched one of Sandidge’s companions.
Defense Attorney Jonathan Zucker, partly agreed with Pace, explaining that Sandidge could not claim self-defense because Sandidge did not shoot Lee that night.
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Deonte Bryant, 22, and Terrance Bush, 21, were each sentenced Thursday to over sixty years in prison for the 2011 Caribbean festival shooting that killed 43-year-old Robert Foster Jr. and injured two others.
Judge John Ramsey Johnson sentenced Bryant to 60 years and six months and Bush to 61 years and six months, for the Northwest D.C. shooting that happened on June 25, 2011 in a crowded place during broad daylight.
“Many people still remember the crime,” Johnson said. “My sentence takes into account everyone: the victims, the defendants and the city. If it was not for the guns nothing like this would have happened.”
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Judge Russell Canan ordered that Howard Randolph be removed from a halfway house Wednesday after Randolph was found with two packs of K2, a synthetic cannabis, while he awaited trial.
Howard, 25, was indicted in December on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in connection to the death of 21-year-old Rayshawn Hailstock in June 2013.
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Corey Saxton was ordered held Tuesday on a charge of second-degree murder; police say he shot Roshaine Henry last Wednesday while being monitored by a court ordered GPS tracking device.
Saxton, a 20-year-old from Northwest DC, is expected back in court March 28 for a preliminary hearing in the case.
Henry was found shot just before 8 p.m. on March 5 in the backseat of a car in the 900 Block of Madison Street Northwest. Henry was brought to the Medstar Hospital with a chest wound. He later died.
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Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in a murder case charging brothers David Warren and Montez Warren with the May 2011 shooting death of Ervin Lamont Griffin.
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Closing arguments began Monday in the case charging brothers Montez Warren and David Warren with the May 2011 shooting death of Ervin Lamont Griffin.
Prosecutors say Griffin was shot when he didn’t have anything to provide in a robbery. But defense attorneys have argued that the proof of that case is troubled.
On Monday afternoon, Montez Warren’s defense attorney, Madalyn Harvey, described the case as being fraught with witness issues.
“Montez Warren deserves a good investigation,” argued attorney Madalyn Harvey. “The government wants to manipulate the facts to their benefit.”
The Warrens are charged with 14 criminal counts in connection with Griffin’s death in an alley behind the 1200 block of 18th Place Northeast.
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A 20-year-old Northwest D.C. man was arrested Monday in connection with the shooting death of Roshaine Henry last Wednesday.
The man, identified by police as Corey Saxton, is suspected of second-degree murder while armed.
On March 5, Henry was found inside a crashed car suffering from a gunshot wound in the 900 block of Madison Street, Northwest. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
MPD later determined that the homicide happened blocks away, in the 1200 block of Madison Street, Northwest.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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After a decline in the number of domestic violence homicides during 2012, it appears that the number of homicide victims related to domestic violence may rise again this year.
Within the first two months of 2014, domestic violence related homicides have taken the lives of four people and injured one other person. Two domestic violence deaths in late 2013 were declared homicides in 2014 and are included in this year’s count, bringing the total to date to six.
This year, the deaths of Tykia Dickerson, Detra Martin, Claudia Hall, and Leroi Elliott, one-month-old Hakeem Brown, and one other infant have been confirmed as related to domestic violence.
During all of 2013, 11 homicides were classified as domestic-violence related by MPD.
According to Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham while the number of domestic violence related homicides is up, it is “too soon to say if it is a trend.” The Metropolitan Police Department is watching the increase carefully, says Newsham, but there no indication that they are related.
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A man found shot in an overturned car Wednesday night has been identified as 24-year-old Roshaine Henry.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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