Peter Hendy was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for the death of his girlfriend’s son, four-year-old Kamari Zavon Taylor.
Hendy, 33, was babysitting Taylor in an apartment in Northeast DC on Aug. 5 of last year, when, according to court records, he punched the boy repeatedly in his stomach, fracturing the child’s ribs and lacerating his liver. Read more
A 24-year-old Southeast DC man was arrested Friday in connection with the shooting death of Deangelo Gatling last month.
The man, identified by police as David Washington, is suspected of first-degree murder while armed.
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A 32-year-old Northeast DC man has died after being shot late Tuesday night.
The man, identified by police as Elvin Jessie Johnson, was transported to a local hospital from the 4200 block of Foote Street, Northeast by a relative. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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A long-standing gang rivalry in Columbia Heights/ Adams Morgan is now at the center of a DC murder trial stretching into its fourth month of testimony.
Over the past two weeks, a former member of one of those gangs has detailed the relationships — and beefs — that brought the two groups together and broke them apart.
Alleged gang members — Keir Johnson, Lester Williams, Robert Givens and Marcellus Jackson — are charged with 80 criminal counts including conspiracy, first-degree murder, obstruction of justice, assault, and weapons charges related to the deaths of Paul Jones, Sean Robinson and Jamal Coates.
For six days, Ricardo Epps, a witness for the government, has testified about his life as a member of “G-Rod,” a group of “20 or so members” living near 14th and Girard Street Northwest.
“We robbed together. We knocked out white guys together. We stayed together,” he said of his participation with the group.
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William Hunt was ordered held Saturday in connection with the May 2011 stabbing death of 48-year-old George White.
Police say White was stabbed 59 times during an argument over a lawnmower.
Police found White on May 20, 2011, at approximately 1:45 p.m. dead in his apartment on the 400 block of Newcomb Street Southeast. Last weekend, more than 20 months later, Hunt, 57, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder while armed in connection with the case.
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A judge found probable cause Monday that Dion Redwood participated in the 2013 shooting death of 16-year-old Darius Cannon.
Redwood, 39, remains held pending a case status hearing in April. Read more
We are almost a generation removed from the worst of the District’s crack epidemic, but the city still bears scars from the violence of the 1980s and ‘90s. WAMU looks back in a five-part series that is well worth your time:
Washington, D.C. is in the midst of major change — its population is growing, new high-rise buildings can be seen across the city, and the homicide rate is at historic lows. But 25 years ago, dealers sold crack at hundreds of open-air drug markets, addiction swept across entire neighborhoods, and the city came to be known as the “Nation’s Murder Capital.” In this five-part series, WAMU 88.5 explores the legacy of that era and how D.C. continues to grapple with an epidemic that affected families, neighborhoods, politicians, policemen, and schools.
Listen to the entire series here.
In brief:
Two people were killed this week in DC:
Their deaths brought January’s homicide count to 13, well ahead of last year’s six.
A judge found Lillian Alvarado incompetent to stand trial for the death of her newborn son after an initial mental competency hearing Wednesday. Alvarado, 21, will be held at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital
Robert Osborne was ordered held pending a preliminary hearing next month. Police say he killed Vincent Purvis was gunned down in broad daylight during a drive-by shooting on Yuma Street Southeast. Osborne, 41, is paralyzed from the chest down and attended a presentment Monday in a wheelchair.
Bernard Fleming pleaded innocent to a 12-count indictment charging him with the 2012 shooting death of 30-year-old Michael Edward Jones.
A preliminary hearing began in the case against Dion Redwood, 39, suspected of first-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Darius Cannon. The hearing is scheduled to continue Monday.
A grand jury charged Jermaine Livingston, suspected in the 2011 shooting death of 34-year-old Antwain Henderson, with being an accessory after the fact in Henderson’s death and tampering with evidence. Livingston, 41, pleaded innocent to both charges. He was arrested in May 2013 on a charge of second-degree murder but has not been charged with that crime.
Richard Williams was sentenced to 35 years in prison in connection with the stabbing death of Sean West in 2010.
William Sony Hunt, 57, was arrested in Yonkers, New York in connection with the 2011 stabbing death of 48-year-old George White. Police said he is suspected of second-degree murder while armed in connection with the case.
A DC man was arrested in Yonkers, New York yesterday in connection with the 2011 stabbing death of 48-year-old George White.
Police said William Sony Hunt, 57, is suspected of second-degree murder while armed in connection with the case.
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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. Read more
