Dear Readers,
In mid-August I had to come to you with some bad news: that a combination of lack of funding and opportunities in other cities would force Homicide Watch D.C. to permanently shut down. Your response to that message was overwhelming, and the volume of support that Chris and I, as founders of Homicide Watch D.C., received was simply breathtaking. Your financial support quickly followed and in less than 30 days we raised more than $40,000 to not only keep Homicide Watch D.C. alive, but to transform it.
Today marks the official start of that transformation.
Sam Pearson, Penny Ray, and Jonah Newman join the Homicide Watch team as your editor and reporters. Each are uniquely qualified for the positions and were selected out of the dozens of internship applications that we received.
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Detectives are looking into a double shooting at the 5000 block of H Street Northeast on Sept. 25 that left one man dead.
Wayne Young, 57, was killed in the shooting. Young was found next to another man who was also shot. Police said that man survived his injuries.
The press release from MPD is after the jump:
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Metro Police officers took Arik Adani Sims into custody on suspicion of first-degree murder in the killing of 29-year-old Lamar Michael Fonville Sept. 30.
A witness told police he saw Sims, 24, talking to Fonville outside the building and they didn’t appear to be arguing, according to an arrest warrant filed for Sims. The witness said Sims, without provocation, pulled a gun from his waistband and shot Fonville multiple times. Sims then ran to a waiting vehicle and fled the scene, the witness said. Read more
Police identified Brian Andre Proctor, 41, of Forestville, Md., as the victim of a shooting Sept. 21.
Officers found Proctor in the 300 block of 37th Street SE at 9:21 p.m. and saw that he had been shot multiple times.
Proctor was taken to a local hospital, where he died of his injuries.
A press release from the Metropolitan Police Department is below the jump:
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Police have arrested Daren Vaughn, 22, of Northeast DC on suspicion of stabbing 23-year-old Tyrell Swann to death Sept. 27.
Officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the 500 block of 50th Place NE at 11:05 p.m. that day.
According to court documents, officers arrived at Swann’s apartment and found him on the kitchen floor in a large pool of blood. Witnesses told police that Swann was stabbed by Vaughn, who lived a few doors away. Read more
Police identified 22-year-old Bidley Warren, of Northeast DC, as the victim of a shooting on Aug. 23 in the 1000 block of Rhode Island Avenue Northeast.
The press release from MPD follows the jump.
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Police identified R’artagnon Jose White, 34, of Northeast D.C. as the victim of a Sept. 13 shooting in the 5100 block of 7th Street Northeast.
The MPD press release follows the jump.
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Police have identified 36-year-old Joe Roosevelt Richbow, of Upper Marlboro, Md., as the victim of a Sept. 18 homicide in Southeast D.C. Richbow was found dead at the scene of the shooting in an apartment in the 2400 block of Elvans Road, Southeast.
The press release from MPD follows the jump.
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Quindetta Cosby, 49, was arrested on suspicion of second degree murder while armed in the stabbing death of 49-year-old Paul Lawrence Morris.
On Sept. 13, police found Morris suffering from multiple stab wounds on the 300 block of Bryant Street Northeast. He was transferred to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. Police officers arrested Cosby at the scene.
The MPD press release follows the jump.
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Police have arrested Leon Allen Smith, 27, of Northeast DC, in connection with the stabbing death of Stephan Manuel Pool.
Pool, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was found stabbed in the early morning hours of Sept. 2 in the 200 block of N Street Southwest. He was transferred to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to court documents, witnesses told police they saw Smith approach Pool, who was in the driver’s seat of a car that was parked outside 203 N Street, S.W. Smith appeared to punch Pool, who then yelled, “He stabbed me,” witnesses said. According to police, Smith told them that he punched Pool, but did not believe that he stabbed him. He later told police that the knife found at the scene was, in fact, his knife.
Smith is expected in court next on Nov. 16 at 9:30 a.m. for a preliminary hearing before Judge William M. Jackson.
The press release from MPD follows the jump.
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