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.
Morin said he would decide at a status hearing Jan. 18 if Montgomery should be placed on supervised release prior to his trial or remain in DC Jail.
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Judge Karen Howze found “substantial probability” Thursday afternoon that Dennis Washington murdered Thomas Lipscomb in April 2011.
Prosecutors say Washington and another man, Christopher Fletcher, went to Lipscomb’s home — either to purchase marijuana or to collect on a debt, depending on witness accounts — but Washington decided to rob him of his television instead, and then ended up killing Lipscomb. Read more
Steven Williams stood in front of Judge Karen Howze this afternoon as she found “substantial probability” that Williams murdered June Grace Lim this past June.
Williams, who is currently serving a sentence for a parole violation, was ordered held after Howze found Williams a “danger to the community.”
According to charging documents, Lim was found lying on the floor behind the counter of Grace Deli, which she owned, shortly after 6 a.m. on June 14. An autopsy later found that the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the back of her neck. An empty handgun holster laid inches from her body, according to government documents.
Metropolitan Police announced the arrests of three suspects in unrelated homicides today.
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.
Two other men who were arrested shortly after the killing, which took place near Meridian Hill Park in Columbia Heights in August 2011, are still suspected in the case. Read more
The Metropolitan Police Department announced Wednesday the arrest of two men on charges of first-degree murder while armed for the 2007 shooting death of 27-year-old Michael Antonio Pearson.
Pearson was shot on Oct. 29, 2007, in the 2100 block of I Street Northeast. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
On Tuesday, police arrested Charles Mason and Jekwan Smith, both 21 years old, in connection with the case.
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This Comment of the Day comes from a reader, who weighs in on the decision to charge 17-year-old Chavez Tyrek Myers as an adult in the stabbing death of Olijawon Griffin:
They should charge all of these guys as Adults.They aren’t kids,they knew what they were doing.I believe a eye for eye,tooth for a tooth.Olijawon didn’t get ask if he wanted to be stab and be killed.SO these boys shouldn’t have a say so ab out anything.Trial them as Adults and put them jail and throw away the key.R.I.P. Olijawon
Daquan Tinker, 16, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the August shooting death of Terrence Robinson, which appears to have been connected to an armed robbery.
According to charging documents, Tinker and four others robbed a person at gunpoint in the 2600 block of Douglass Road Southeast early in the morning of Aug. 4.Read more
Terrence McNeal pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter this month for stabbing and killing Charles Hicks during a fight in Southeast D.C. in June 2011.
McNeal entered the plea Nov. 19, according to court records.
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