On Thursday Judge William Jackson found probable cause on the lesser charge of second-degree murder while armed in the case against Burnis Cole, suspected of fatal stabbing of 40-year-old Raasheem Jamal Rich. Prosecutors had sought a charge of first-degree murder. According to arrest documents, video surveillance from a liquor store on Alabama Avenue Southeast recorded … Read more →
The Washington Post reports that Raasheem Jamal Rich, fatally stabbed Jan. 10, was once himself a killer in 1990. Rich spent two decades in prison, during which the number of people killed in D.C. plummeted. His conviction two decades ago, and his violent death this year, connect two wildly different moments in the history of … Read more →
Burnis Cole, the man accused in D.C.’s first homicide of 2013, appeared in court Friday afternoon to be presented with a charge of first-degree murder. The judge in the case, Karen Howze, ruled that there was enough evidence at this stage to hold Cole in connection with the fatal stabbing of Raasheem Jamal Rich on … Read more →
Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force officers have arrested Burnis Cole Thursday in connection with the Jan. 10 murder of Raasheem Jamal Rich. Rich, 40, was the District’s first homicide of 2013. Police distributed a video showing a person of interest in the case Saturday. As of Thursday afternoon, Cole had not yet appeared before … Read more →
Police have released a video showing two men they believe were involved in the fatal stabbing of Raasheem Jamal Rich. Rich died Thursday afternoon in the year’s first homicide. He was found suffering from stab wounds in the 2800 block of Alabama Avenue Southeast and died after being taken to a nearby hospital. MPD’s full … Read more →
MPD has identified a man fatally stabbed Thursday afternoon in Southeast DC as 40-year-old Raasheem Jamal Rich of Northeast, Washington, DC. Rich was found suffering from stab wounds in the 2800 block of Alabama Ave. SE at about 3:30 p.m. DC police said Thursday that they were looking for two black men about 25 to … Read more →
In the District’s first homicide of 2013, a man was fatally stabbed Thursday afternoon in the 2800 block of Alabama Avenue Southeast, near the Good Hope Marketplace. Friends of the man said his name was Jamal Rich. The Washington Post reports: The victim, 38, had fought with two men inside a liquor store and employees … Read more →
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