This Weekend Read comes from the Washington Examiner, which reported that a panel convened to address youth homicides has failed to meet in the 15 months since it was created.
From the Examiner:
A District panel developed after a spate of murders committed by fugitive juveniles hasn’t met more than 15 months after the law establishing it went into force, the city’s inspector general has found.
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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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Brandon Terry pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder while armed in the fatal shooting of Jhonte Coleman.
Coleman was killed in November 2011 after a party at Heritage India in Dupont Circle. Terry, 29, was arrested in February.
Under the plea agreement, attorneys for both sides recommended Terry serve 22 years for the murder charge and two assault charges. The maximum possible sentence is 60 years total.
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A 23-count indictment has charged Irving Johnson with first-degree murder in a Columbia Heights shooting that left two men dead.
Johnson pleaded innocent to the charges in court on Friday.
Sade Stephens, charged with being an accessory after the fact to the shooting, pleaded innocent also.
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This Comment of the Day comes from Angelcaldwell48, who wrote in about Amber Kent:
I don’t know her but I would like to say that I’m so sorry for your loss and for your family’s loss. This is one of the saddest stories I have heard in a long time. I wish that they would take PCP off the streets it’s taking ppls. minds and they are not even realizing what their doing when their doing it
Davon Holmes pled innocent today to fatally stabbing Marcellus Bailey in August 2011. Holmes, 29, is charged with one count of premeditated first-degree murder while armed.
Bailey, 24, died after being cut in the neck. At a preliminary hearing, MPD Detective Paul Regan said that Bailey was unarmed when he was killed. In his testimony before Judge Thomas Motley, Regan did not give any indication of motive in the case. Regan said two witnesses each described Bailey and Holmes together that night before Holmes struck out in an apparent slap at Bailey’s neck. Neither witness saw anything in Holmes’ hand.
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Cydrisse Alvin was ordered held on a charge of second-degree murder while armed today after prosecutors submitted additional information about Alvin’s use of PCP.
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A DC woman suspected of fatally stabbing her friend and neighbor had her first appearance in DC Superior Court this afternoon; her attorney did not argue that there was not cause to believe that she committed the crime.
Cydrisse Alvin was arrested Monday at Malcolm X Elementary School in Southeast DC. Prosecutors say that Alvin stabbed her neighbor, Amber Lynette Kent, in front of at least two witnesses at about 9 a.m. that same day. The two women are friends on Facebook.
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Details are emerging in a fatal stabbing that left 28-year-old Amber Lynette Kent dead Monday morning, and her neighbor in custody on suspicion of murder.
Kent was found stabbed in the 3400 block of 13th Place, Southeast at about 9 a.m. Monday morning. Cydrisse Marcha-Marie Alvin was arrested at about 1:30 that afternoon on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed.
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David Shepherd was ordered held today pending a preliminary hearing on a charge that he shot and killed Henry Miller in Southeast DC early Sunday morning.
Charging documents in the case state that uniformed police officers in the neighborhood where Miller was shot observed a white truck drive past them. Soon after a witness told them that a man wearing a red shirt and a red hat and driving a white truck was connected to Miller’s death.
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