Homicide Watch D.C.

Lester Wright was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of Howard Williams.

Wright pleaded guilty to second degree murder while armed in March.
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Each Friday, Homicide Watch brings you a list of upcoming hearings in the cases we follow. All hearings are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted. To add an item to the listing, email homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com. To see scheduled court hearings beyond next week, see our calendar.
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MPD is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man in this video, who is a person of interest in the death of Darryl Eugene Sweet, Sr.

Sweet, 61, was found unconscious and unresponsive on July 26 suffering from “an internal head wound,” according to police reports.
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Police are asking for the public’s help in apprehending 20-year-old Lamont Hill, who is wanted for murder in the death of Brian Dewayne Bloomfield.

Bloomfield was found shot and stabbed in a parking lot in the 3400 block of 13th Place Southeast the evening of June 11.

The Washington Examiner reports that police obtained an arrest warrant for Hill in the days after Bloomfield’s death, but they have been unable to locate him.
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The jury charged with determining Chamontae Walker’s and Corey Yates’ guilt began deliberations Wednesday, after a full week of testimony about the shooting death of Darrel Hendy.

Walker and Yates are charged with first-degree murder in his death, even though neither of them fired the bullet that killed him. A third suspect, Meeko Carraway, pleaded guilty in the case and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in April.

“It’s undisputed that the person who shot him seven times was Meeko Carraway,” prosecutor Emily Miller said in closing arguments, “but we have shown that without the words, actions and intentions of Chamontae Walker and Corey Yates, Darrel Hendy would not have died on Sept. 25, 2010.”Read more

A man fatally shot in Northeast DC Monday night has been identified as 22-year-old Jerry Williams.

A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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A shooting in Northeast DC Monday night has left one man dead, WUSA, WJLA and Fox5 report.

According to WUSA, police found the man at about 11:40 Monday night in the 4700 block of Brooks Streets Northeast. He had been shot in the back. He was taken to a hospital and declared dead.
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A 61-year-old Southeast DC man found unconscious Thursday night died of his injuries. MPD has ruled his death a homicide on Saturday and identified him as Darryl Eugene Sweet, Sr.

Jimi Imur Pendleton, 33, was found shot to death in an alley on Friday morning near the 2300 Block of Park Place Southeast.

The case against Jashua Johnson will be sent to the grand jury for investigation, after Judge Ronna Beck found substantial probability today that Johnson killed Davon Brown.

Keith Littlepage was found guilty of both first-degree murder and felony murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Selina Knight, at their SoutheastDC apartment in March 2011. The jury of three men and nine women announced the verdict just before noon Tuesday. Their deliberations lasted approximately two days.

Chamontae Walker and Corey Yates never fired a gun at Darrel Hendy. But the pair are on trial for his death this week, charged with first-degree murder. Hendy, 29, was killed Sept. 25, 2010 in the 800 block of Southern Avenue, Southeast DC. In opening statements, prosecutors said Hendy was shot from behind— seven times— and that he likely never saw his attacker coming.

Joseph Peoples was ordered held after Judge Ronna Beck found substantial probability that he took part in the fatal shooting of 30-year-old Michael Edward Jones this month.

A grand jury indicted ex-Marine Michael Poth, charging him with one count of second-degree murder while armed. Poth, 20, is suspected of killing fellow Marine Phillip Bushong outside the Marine Corps Barracks in Southeast DC in April.

Albrecht Muth’s mental health remains in question, and it remains unclear whether or when he will stand trial in the death of his wife, 91-year-old Viola Drath. As the one-year anniversary of his wife’s death approaches, Muth remains mentally incompetent to stand trial and is, for the time being, destined to remain in psychiatric custody at St Elisabeths.

Jeremy Risper was sentenced to 35 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of Jamal Wilson. Risper, 22, was found guilty of first degree murder while armed, plus two weapons charges, in a March trial. Jurors found that in Nov. 2010 Risper and his co-defendant, Kwan Kearney, chased 19-year-old Wilson through the Truxton Circle neighborhood then engaged in a shootout that left Wilson dead.

A judge found substantial probability in the case against Anthony Campbell, saying that although there were “certain oddities” about the case there was enough evidence to send the first-degree murder charge to the grand jury. Campbell, 34, is suspected of shooting Antwain Henderson in the head following an argument, then taking his body to Prince George’s County and burning it in a car.

The death of Aaron Henderson has been ruled a homicide. Henderson, 36, was found unconscious and unresponsive in Northeast DC in April in a Trinidad-area alley.

Orlando Carter, one of the five men convicted of taking part in the deadly South Capitol Street shootings was sentenced to five and half years in prison for a robbery he committed while in custody at DC Jail. The sentence is likely to be served concurrently to any sentence he receives in the South Capitol murder case.

A 61-year-old Southeast DC man found unconscious Thursday night has died of his injuries and MPD has ruled his death a homicide.

In a press release issued Saturday night, MPD said the man, Darryl Eugene Sweet Sr., was found in the 3800 block of Minnesota Avenue, NE by officers responding to a call for an intoxicated male. Sweet was unconscious and unresponsive. He was taken to a hospital where doctors determined that he had suffered an internal head wound. He was pronounced dead on Friday.
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A man found dead in Southeast DC early Friday morning has been identified as 33-year-old Jimi Imur Pendleton, MPD said in a press release Saturday night.

Officers found Pendelton shot at about 1:17 Friday morning; he was declared dead at the scene.
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