Homicide Watch D.C.

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.

On Monday Marlon Williams is scheduled for a status hearing with Judge Ann O’Regan Keary. Williams is supsected in the death of Min Soo Kang.

James Fields is scheduled for a status hearing on Wednesday with Judge Ronna Beck. Fields pled not guilty to the August shooting death of Christopher Freeman.

On Thursday Davon Holmes is scheduled for a felony arraignment with Judge Beck. Holmes is suspecte in the stabbing death of Marcellus Bailey.

On Friday Anthony Speight is scheduled for a felony status conference with Judge Keary. Speight is suspected in the shooting death of Bill Mitchell Jr.

Judge Robert Morin is expecting Charles Coates for a status hearing on Friday. Coates is suspected in the shooting death of his cousin, Eddie Leonard Jr.

Deonte Bryant, Terry Jimenez, and Terrance Bush are scheduled for status hearings with Judge William Jackson on Friday. They all pled not guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of Robert Foster Jr.

Dietrich Baker is scheduled for a preliminary hearing with Judge Thomas Motley on Friday. Baker is suspected in the shooting death of James Ray Sherrod.

Judge Morin is expecting Dominique Bassil on Friday for a status hearing. Bassil was indicted for second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Vance Harris.

On Friday, Donald McCorkle is scheduled for a felony status conference with Judge Beck. He is suspected in the death of Bruce Parker.

Judge Morin is expecting Irving Johnson for a felony arraignment on Friday. Johnson is suspected in the shooting deaths of Domonique Barber and Jimmie Lee Simmons III.

Maurice Hawkins is scheduled for a felony status conference with Judge Beck on Friday. He is suspected in the death of 56-year-old Baltimore woman, Barbara Lloyd.

Please remember that court dates can change, even at the last minute. To view the docket of a case please go to the D.C. Courts website and search by the defendant’s name.

This Comment of the Day comes from Stormytouch, who wrote in about a man shot Thursday morning in Southeast DC:

I pray for this man and his family. Why is it easier to kill someone than embrace them with a hug. I lost so many men in my family to murder. This isn’t how things are supposed to be. We can’t go shopping to party to school to church to the hospital to a funeral or a baby shower without the fear of someone opening fire or stabbing and killing someone . Sometimes it is even your spouse who takes ur life.The change starts with us ppl. If we keep this going we all are going be extinct. I’m not talking race but mankind as a whole.

WUSA reports that a shooting in Southeast DC this morning has left one man dead.

The victim was found shot at about 7 a.m. in the 800 block of Burns St. Southeast.

The jailhouse interview of a man present when Ronnie Speight was shot dead in an alley in Northeast DC helped lead police to the man they say fired the shots that riddled Speight’s body.

Jamar George, arrested at DC Jail Wednesday, was presented Thursday with a charge of premeditated first-degree murder while armed. He is currently serving a 2 year prison term after pleading guilty in Dec. 2011 to weapons charges.

Speight was shot and killed May 26, 2011.
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Alex Cater was ordered held by Judge Thomas Motley at the conclusion of his preliminary hearing Thursday.

Wednesday, Motley found probable cause that Cater is responsible for the December 2011 stabbing death of Leroy Studevant.
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A Maryland man was arrested today in connection with a 2010 homicide in Northwest DC.

Police say 22-year-old Alexander Gomez-Enamorado of Port Republic, Md. stabbed 54-year-old Miguel Ventura of Lanham, Maryland on Nov. 8, 2010 killing him.

Gomez-Enamorado is suspected of first degree murder.
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A 25-year-old Northeast DC man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the May 2011 shooting death of Ronnie Speight Jr.

The man, Jamar Delante George, is suspected of first degree murder.
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In a marathon of a preliminary hearing set to stretch out over three days, Judge Thomas Motley found probable cause Wednesday that Alex Cater is responsible for the December 2011 stabbing death of Leroy Studevant.

Studevant was found dead in Marvin Gaye Park the morning of Dec. 31, 2011. His pants, shoes, and socks were wet. A t-shirt, two black jackets, and a broken knife blade lay under him. A belt was around his neck.

The next day, Jan. 1, 2012, Studevant’s death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner. It was the first homicide of 2012.
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Ronnell James was sentenced today to 32 years in prison for the stabbing death of Robert Beidleman Jr. Prosecutors said Beidleman, 56, was killed in a robbery in 2007 in Northeast DC.

A press release from the US Attorney’s Office is after the jump.
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MPD today 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. Watch the video here.
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