This Comment of the Day comes from Joshae, who wrote about Ramona Gray. Gray was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder while armed in the death of Shemese Grant.
Ramona gray is my mother Ramona gray is my pop pop I’m so sorry for my mothers behavior yes she was wrong but don’t call anyone what u think they r because u r no better and yes I’m only 12 my mother had foolish friends that made her do any thing Read more
A 23-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the June shooting death of Quentin Lavar White.
Police said Tuesday evening that the man, identified as Don Demichie Page, Jr, is suspected of first-degree murder.
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Judge John Ramsey Johnson found probable cause Monday that Asia Moore stabbed and killed 23-year-old Marvin Harvey. Moore, though, has been released from jail on a personal promise to attend all scheduled court hearings.
On July 3, police found Moore, 22, with her boyfriend, Harvey, who was unconscious on the basement floor of a home on Blaine Street Northeast.
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This Comment of the Day comes from Darryl Grayson who wrote in about Omar Sykes. He writes:
The important thing is that we must all develop a comprehensive solution to this violence and crime in our neighborhoods. Whether a street is named in memory of Omar is not the issue. We must solve this ongoing crisis and epidemic throughout our communities nationwide. If the death of Omar Sykes generates the attention and rallying cry to take action to prevent other deaths, then we should support that effort.Read more
Two homicides were reported in D.C. this week.
Delrico Shuford concluded his testimony in the “21st and Vietnam” murder trial. Over the course of three days, Shuford told jurors details about his affiliation with a crew called 21st and Vietnam, which is alleged to have taken the lives of Tyrell Fogle, Isaiah Sheffield and Steven Moore.
Lamonte Hill was arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder while armed and a related weapons offense in connection with the death of Brian Bloomfield. Co-defendant Taquia Allen was arraigned on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the case. They both pleaded innocent.
Lloyd Bright was arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the death of 61-year-old Darryl Sweet Sr. Bright pleaded innocent to the charge and a trial date is scheduled for April 2014.
Arik Sims was arraigned on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the shooting death of Lamar Michael Fonville. Sims pleaded innocent and a trial is scheduled for November 18.
Herbert Hayes was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder while armed for the May 2012 stabbing death of 41-year-old John Wesley Griffin. At trial, Hayes testified that he never stabbed Griffin and that the prosecution’s witnesses were “tricked and coerced against” him. But prosecutors argued that Hayes deliberately stabbed Griffin, then “boasted” to his friends and his girlfriend about what he did.
Joseph Chandler, the man accused of shooting and killing 63-year-old Shirley Tucker, was released from D.C. jail Friday due to medical conditions. Chandler was released into the supervisory custody of a friend who volunteered to let him stay with her. Chandler’s daughters also agreed to share the responsibility of seeing that his medical needs are met.
Judge Robert Morin found substantial probability that Mauda’Rico Proctor participated in the shooting death of 27-year-old Dominic Davis. Proctor remains held pending a grand jury indictment.
David Robinson was sentenced to 10 months in prison Friday in connection with the shooting death of 21-year-old Howard Ricardo Sampler. Robinson pleaded guilty to three weapons charges in connection with Sampler’s death in April.
A Maryland man has been identified as the victim of a Saturday morning shooting.
Derrick Scott, 30, of Capitol Heights, Md., was found in the 300 block of Parkland Place Southeast, suffering from a gunshot wound around 4:30 a.m. He later died at the hospital.
A second victim who was shot in the 3000 block of Martin Luther King Avenue Southeast around the same time remains hospitalized.
Police Alert-Shooting _0425 HRS _ MLK Ave & Parkland Pl SE_NO LOOKOUT DO NOT TAKE ACTION CALL 911 W/EVENT #20130… http://t.co/I1xGxJI2jB
— dcalerts (@dcalerts) July 13, 2013
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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A young person who died Saturday after being delivered to a local hospital suffering from a gunshot wound has been identified as 18-year-old Anthony Sanchez, MPD press officer Ariz Alali said Saturday afternoon.
Sanchez was shot in an undetermined location, Alali said, though a preliminary investigation has revealed that the shooting may have been near Columbia Road and Sherman Avenue in Northwest DC.
Councilmember Jim Graham said earlier Saturday that the victim was a ward of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
Update: MPD has confirmed that just one death has resulted from Saturday morning’s violence; Anthony Sanchez died after being taken to a local hospital with gunshot wounds. MPD press officer Ariz Alali said Saturday afternoon that the victim in the Parkland Place shooting is in grave condition.
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NBC Washington has posted that they have “updated” their story from this morning that three people were killed early Saturday morning to report that only one of the three people reported shot died.
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DC Councilmember Jim Graham reports that a juvenile who died from a gunshot wound early Saturday morning at a local hospital had been shot in Columbia Heights, near Columbia Road and Sherman Avenue.
The young person, Graham said in an listserv message, was Latino and a ward of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
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See our update on this story here.
NBC Washington reports that three people, including one juvenile, were killed in separate incidents in DC early Saturday morning.
According to NBC Washington, the juvenile was shot just before 2 a.m. He was dropped off at a hospital, NBC Washington reported. The location of where the shooting took place was not immediately available.
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