Antonio Jones may claim insanity in his defense against a charge of first-degree murder while armed, Jones’ attorney said Friday.
Jones, 20, is charged in the October shooting death of Davon Gray. He pled innocent to the charges against him at his arraignment today.
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Felicia Jones pled innocent on Friday morning to second-degree murder while armed in the stabbing death of Jodie Ward.
Ward was found unconscious in a child’s bedroom in a home in Southeast DC the night of Oct. 20. According to charging documents, a knife was protruding from his left ear.
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This Comment of the Day comes from Beautiful who wrote in about Antwan Petty. She wrote:
if someone knows when the funeral maybe please let me know. I was on the train today when his mother got the news. I comforted her because she was histerical! We have to do better!
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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The Southeast DC man arrested after a nearly eight-hour-long standoff with police Wednesday has said he did fire a gun at J’Ron Lamar Brown, once, at the urging of a neighbor.
Brown, 24, was fatally shot at about 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Derrick Babb was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed in connection with the case later that day. He was ordered held pending a preliminary hearing on the charge today.
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Georgetown murder suspect Albrecht Muth still lacks the mental competency required to stand trial, a new report from his doctors at Saint Elizabeths states.
Muth was scheduled to be arraigned, if he was found competent, on Thursday.
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Washington’s Other Monuments has photos of two new street memorials. One outside Grace Deli in Northeast DC where June Lim was killed June 14, and one near where Henry Miller was killed on June 3.
See more photos of these memorials, and others, at Washington’s Other Monuments.
Christian Taylor was found guilty this week of fatally shooting two Northeast DC men, a father and son, in a June 2010 robbery attempt on their store.
The verdict came just days short of the two-year anniversary of the crime.
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A man arrested on suspicion of murder after barricading himself inside a Southeast DC apartment building was identified tonight by MPD as 23-year-old Derrick Babb.
Just before 2 a.m. Wednesday, J’Ron Lamar Brown was found shot in 1700 block of 17th Street Southeast. Brown was taken to a hospital where he died.
MPD said that after the shooting, a suspect, believed to be Babb, barricaded himself inside an apartment in the same block, launching an almost eight hour long standoff with police and SWAT team negotiators.
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Twenty-four-year-old J’Ron Brown was identified as the victim of the fatal shooting this morning that preceded a nearly eight-hour standoff between police, SWAT teams and a suspect.
The suspect still has not been identified.
An interactive timeline of the shooting and subsequent standoff follows after the jump.
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