Update: MPD identified the victim as Selina Brown.
A shooting aboard a Metrobus near 19th Street and Minnesota Avenue Southeast has killed one woman and sent a four-year-old child to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, NBC Washington reports.
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Derrell Bennett pled guilty to second-degree murder while armed for his involvement in the 2010 shooting death of Keith Banks. Bennett and another suspect, Reginald Vance, originally pled innocent. Vance pled guilty as an accessory to the fatal shooting in April and is scheduled to be sentenced December 28. Bennett is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 25, 2013.
Judge Ronna Beck found substantial probability against Chavez Myers, who is suspected of fatally stabbing Olijawon Griffin inside the Woodley Park metro station in November. Beck also found probable cause against three others who are charged with robbery while armed for their involvement in an incident that preceded the stabbing. A felony status hearing for Myers is scheduled for Jan. 2.
Shirley Renee Tucker was found shot in the 1800 block of Maryland Avenue Northeast Thursday night; she later died at the hospital. Her boyfriend, Joseph Chandler, was arrested in connection with the case.
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Police have identified the victim in last night’s fatal shooting in Northeast as Shirley Renee Tucker, 63. Her boyfriend, Joseph Chandler, is in custody, the Washington Post reports.
Chandler, 73, was arrested inside an apartment in the 1800 block of Maryland Ave Northeast, where the shooting to place, according to the Post.
[Officer Araz Alali, a police spokesman] said officers were called to the apartment about 8:15 p.m. to investigate an altercation. He did not say who called police. When officers arrived, Alali said they found the victim suffering from several gunshot wounds to her body.
Frozen Tropics has more from the scene.
The Washington Post reports that a 63-year-old woman was found shot in an apartment in the 1800 block of 18th Street Northeast street around 8:15 p.m. last night.
The woman was transported to a hospital where she later died from her injuries. Metropolitan police have arrested one suspect in connection with the case.
Officials have not released the name of the victim nor the name of the suspect at this time.
Authorities believe the shooting was the result of a domestic dispute between a husband and a wife, the Post reports.
Correction: The headline of this post has been updated to say that the shooting took place in Northeast, not Southeast.
Judge Ronna Beck found substantial probability Tuesday in the case against Chavez Myers, the 17-year-old who is suspected of stabbing and killing Olijawon Griffin inside the Woodley Park metro station Nov. 17.
The judge also found probable cause in the cases against three other teens who have been charged for their alleged role in the armed robbery and fight that preceded the fatal stabbing. Four other teens have been charged as juveniles in the robbery and assault.
At the hearing, prosecutors indicated that other homicide charges might be forthcoming, perhaps against some of the four men who are currently charged only in the armed robbery.
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Derrell Bennett pleaded guilty Friday to second degree murder while armed in the 2010 death of Keith Banks.
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Terrence McNeal pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for stabbing and killing Charles Hicks during a fight in Southeast D.C. in June 2011.
All charges against Malachi Hargrove, who had been indicted by a grand jury in connection with the armed robbery and murder of Osman Al-Akbar, have been dropped. Hargrove was released from custody on Nov. 16. He had turned himself into police in April.
Police arrested David Tyrone Robinson, 20, on suspicion of shooting and killing Howard Ricardo Sampler, though he has not yet been presented with a murder charge. A police press release says Robinson is charged with second-degree murder while armed. Bill Miller, spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office, said Robinson is being held on a weapons charge while the homicide investigation continues.
Steven Williams was arrested in the shooting death of June Grace Lim, who police believe was killed in a robbery this past June. Lim was found dead inside Grace Deli, which she owned, shortly after 6 a.m. on June 14. A judge ordered Williams held at a presentment hearing on Thursday.
Dennis Washington was arrested in the beating death of Thomas Lipscomb. Judge Karen Howze found “substantial probability” Thursday that Washington murdered Lipscomb in April 2011. Prosecutors allege Lipscomb was killed for his television.
Judge Robert Morin set a trial date of June 10 for Gary Niles Montgomery, who is accused of murdering 23-year-old JaParker Deoni Jones. Montgomery, 55, is suspected of stabbing and killing Jones in February.
Michael Jerome Galloway was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing Navarro Anthony Brown. Brown and Galloway, both then 18, were not fighting on the evening of Jan. 10 when Brown was found on the sidewalk bleeding from his head in the 3200 block of 23rd Street Southeast, where both men lived with their families. But that didn’t stop a conversation between the men from ending in gunfire.
Ronald Page rejected a plea deal on Friday, paving the way for a June trial on charges that he shot and killed his step-son, Nicholas Ray Satcher, in Jan. 2011.
Ronald Page rejected a plea deal on Friday, paving the way for a June trial on charges that he shot and killed his step-son, Nicholas Ray Satcher, in Jan. 2011.
Prosecutors had offered to drop all other charges in exchange for a plea to guilty of voluntary manslaughter while armed, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffery Ragsdale said.
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Prosecutors say Navarro Anthony Brown is dead because Michael Jerome Galloway made a rash decision. It’s a decision that Judge William Jackson ruled Friday will leave Galloway behind bars for 15 years.
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