Week in Review

A vigil Tuesday for JaParker Deoni Jones drew more than 200 people; later in the week MPD announced that 55-year-old Gary Niles Montgomery was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed in connection with Jones’ death.

Judge Russell Canan ruled that Albrecht Muth is currently mentally and physically incapable of representing himself against charges involving the death of 91-year-old Georgetown socialite Viola Herms Drath. Muth is on a hunger strike and was hospitalized during the week.

Court documents showed that Terrell Brent, a 20-year-old DC man accused of fatally shooting a close friend in a game of Russian Roulette, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the case.

Kwan Kearney was sentenced to 60 years in prison for a double shooting, which killed teen Joseph Alonzo Sharps Jr. and wounded one other teen. Kearney was convicted of the first-degree murder charge in December.

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