A woman fatally stabbed in Southeast DC Monday morning has been identified as 28-year-old Amber Lynette Kent. Police have arrested 31-year-old Cydrisse Marcha-Marie Alvin in connection with the crime. Both women are from Southeast DC.
Alvin is suspected of second-degree murder while armed.
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Phillip Crooms was sentenced Wednesday to ten years in prison for his role in a robbery that left 29-year-old Delonte Butler dead.
According to court records, prosecutors believe that Butler was shot by a rifle while inside of a vehicle by Croom’s co-defendant, Joseph Spinks. Immediately following the shooting, the car collided with a tree. Charging documents alleged that Crooms handed Spinks a bottle of rubbing alcohol in order to light the car on fire and destroy evidence of the shooting.
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This Comment of the Day comes from Ms.Right who wrote in regarding Yolanda Stone:
I think the brevity of the comment written on behalf of Ms. Yolanda Stone by the person named Tinkerbell was very well written, and very organized. We as young women, mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces, grandmothers, so on and so fourth have to somehow make the laws tighter and stricter when dealing with domestic violence. For all that matter men as well.Read more
An overnight shooting in the 1100 block of Chicago Street Southeast killed 32-year-old Henry Charles Miller, of Southeast DC, MPD reports. Police have arrested a suspect in the incident.
David Allen Shepherd, 48, was taken into custody in the 1400 block of Brentwood Parkway NE. MPD’s statement is below the jump. Read more
A 19-year-old DC man was killed Saturday night in a shooting in Southeast DC.
The victim was identified as Antwan Lamont Petty in a press release from MPD.
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In Brief:
Ricardo Mandrell Lancaster of Fort Washington, MD. was killed in a shooting that took place in Southeast DC Thursday morning.
MPD released a video of a “person if interest” connected to a fatal stabbing that occurred in the 400 block of Florida Avenue, Northwest on May 1. The stabbing killed 33-year-old Dwayne Edward Brisbon.
Ronnell James was sentenced to 32 years in prison for the stabbing death of Robert Beidleman Jr.
In a three day preliminary hearing, Judge Thomas Motley found probable cause in the case against Alex Cater, accused in the New Year’s Eve stabbing death of Leroy Studevant. Cater was ordered held on the charge.
Jamar Delante George, a 25-year-old Northeast DC man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the May 2011 shooting death of Ronnie Speight Jr. He is suspected of first degree murder.
Alexander Gomez-Enamorado, a 22-year-old Port Republic, Md. man, was arrested Thursday in connection with a 2010 homicide in Northwest DC. Police say he stabbed 54-year-old Miguel Ventura of Lanham, Maryland on Nov. 8, 2010 killing him.
Reginald Green pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed in the stabbing death of Alfonza Flythe at what was supposed to be his preliminary hearing on Friday.
Alexander Gomez-Enamorado was ordered held today pending a preliminary hearing in connection with the stabbing death of Miguel Ventura.
Gomez-Enamorado was arrested at DC Jail Thursday after being given an FBI polygraph test; he’s suspected of first-degree murder.
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MPD today identified he victim of a fatal shooting that took place in Southeast DC Thursday as Ricardo Mandrell Lancaster of Fort Washington, MD.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
Reginald Green pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed in the stabbing death of Alfonza Flythe at what was supposed to be his preliminary hearing on Friday.
According to charging documents, witnesses told police that Green and Flythe fought, shoving each other, on the day of the murder, in the cafeteria of a NE homeless shelter.
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