Week in Review

In brief:

A man fatally shot early last Sunday morning in Northeast DC was been identified as 19 year-old David Lee Robinson. Mayor Vincent Gray said Robinson was killed in a robbery for his Nike shoes.

Navarro Anthony Brown, 18, was killed in a shooting early Tuesday evening in Southeast DC.

Stephen Horsley, an 19-year-old Northeast DC man, was killed in a shooting on Benning Road Southeast Friday night.

Antoine Taylor was sentenced to 17 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of Joshua Hopkins.

Marcellus Jackson and Keir Johnson pleaded innocent in all charges included in an 80-count gang indictment. They were presented at DC Superior Court this week on the charges after being sought by authorities since December.

Damien Pannell was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing 46-year-old Glenn Bailey in a parking lot fight last May.

A superseding indictment enhanced two of the most serious charges against Eric Foreman, who is scheduled to go to trial for the shooting death of Catholic University student Neil Godleski in less than a month. The enhancements could mean more prison time for Foreman if he is convicted.

Corey Yates pleaded guilty in Maryland court to first-degree murder in the Dec. 2010 shooting death of Doodley Derose. Yates, 22, is also pending trial in DC. He’s charged in the Sept. 2010 shooting death of Darrel Hendy.

Claude Kinney was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the stabbing death of his estranged wife, Alecia Wheeler. The couple’s children witnessed the daytime crime which took place in a Trinidad alley.

Lester Wright pleaded innocent to a charge of premeditated first-degree murder while armed in connection with the shooting death of 48-year-old Howard Williams in Northeast D.C.

Calvin Monroe was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the shooting death of 27-year-old Lonnie Whitted.

Antonio Ramell Barnes, 20, and Earl Timothy Jackson Jr, 19, were arrested in connection with a fatal shootout in the Clay Terrace neighborhood in 2009. They are each suspected of first-degree murder while armed in the homicides of Davonta Artis and Daquarn Tibbs.

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