The U.S. Attorney’s Office has dropped a first-degree murder charge against James Anthony Speaks, who had been indicted in the April 6, 2011 murder of Shonell “Chris” Corriea. Speaks’ attorney said Wednesday that evidence had shown Speaks to be innocent. Speaks was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder on April 12, 2011, and was detained … Read more →
James Speaks pleaded innocent today to a charge of first-degree murder while armed in connection with the shooting death of Shonell Chris Corriea. Speaks was arrested April 12 on suspicion of second-degree murder. Prosecutors allege that Corriea was killed in a Petworth alley on April 6 after telling his mother he was going outside to … Read more →
At times today in Judge Gerald Fisher’s courtroom, it seemed like James Speaks, the man sitting at the defense desk in an orange jumpsuit, was not in fact the man under suspicion. Speaks was arrested April 12 on suspicion of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Shonell “Chris” Corriea in a Petworth ally the … Read more →
Last Wednesday night, Shonell “Chris” Correia was sitting on the couch in his living room talking with his mother and checking the caller ID numbers on the house phone. Twenty minutes later he was dead. According to details in the criminal complaint against James Speaks, accused of second-degree murder in Correia’s death, after checking the … Read more →
James Speaks appeared in court late this afternoon on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of Shonell “Chris” Corriea on April 6. Speaks was presented with the charge and a preliminary hearing was set for Friday April 22. Shackled and wearing a white jumpsuit, Speaks hung his head through the brief … Read more →
James Anthony Speaks, a 22-year-old Northwest D.C. man, has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Shonell Correia on Quincy Street NW last week. MPD’s press release follows: Arrest Made in the Homicide in the 700 Block of Quincy Street, NW (Washington, DC) —Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide … Read more →
