Three men were arrested Wednesday in connection with the December 2011 shooting death of Steven Curtis Moore.
Stanley Moghalu, 25, Kevin Charles, 21, Johnnie Harris, 20, are suspected of first-degree murder while armed.
A press release is after the jump.
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The DC teen suspected in five hammer assaults in Petworth, including one that killed 66-year-old Denver nurse Gary Dederichs, had been intent on obtaining a gun in the week leading up to the assaults but appears not to have been able to acquire one.
That’s according to charging documents presented to the nineteen year old, Michael Davis, today at DC Superior Court. He’s suspected of one count of first-degree premeditated murder as well as two counts of assault with intent to kill.
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The brother of football stars Vernon and Vontae Davis has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of 66-year-old Denver man Gary Dederichs.
The teen, Michael Davis, was already in custody on suspicion of assaulting two other people with a hammer.
A preliminary hearing was scheduled in those cases for Friday morning.
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It was supposed to be a celebratory night. And, until the gunshots rang out, it was.
At the Go-Go themed graduation party teens chatted, danced, and goofed off for photos with friends. A variety of neighborhood bands played in the church rec room rented for the event.
“Everybody was partying, having a good time,” a Roosevelt High School 10th grader remembered this week.
“It was noisy, like a party, there was dancing,” recalled another student.
But the party was shut down that June evening after a scuffle between two neighborhood groups broke out, and the “hyped” teens spilled out of the rec room and onto Georgia Avenue. Some started to make their way home, others lingered, chatting and drinking in a nearby McDonald’s parking lot.
Then shots rang out.
Sixteen-year-old Jamal Bell crumpled to the sidewalk.
Near him, two others lay wounded.
Today, nearly two years after that June 2010 graduation party, jurors were scheduled to begin deliberations in the case against Zachary Sims, the teen prosecutors say fired those gunshots on June 18, 2010.
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Jurors today found five young men guilty in the South Capitol Street shootings more than two years after the killings and nearly two weeks of jury deliberations.
Orlando Carter, 22, and Jeffrey Best, 23, were convicted on five counts of first-degree murder, as well as charges of assault, conspiracy, gun possession and destruction of property.
Robert Bost, 23, was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder, while Sanquan Carter, 21, was convicted of one count.
Lamar Williams, 23, was found guilty of multiple counts of second-degree murder, as well as gun possession and conspiracy charges.
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David Bolden was ordered held Saturday on a charge of first-degree murder while armed in the stabbing death of Lamont Devore.
According to charging documents, detectives believe that Bolden believed that Devore had “said some things” to Bolden’s baby’s mother, causing Bolden “problems.”
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MPD Chief Cathy Lanier and US Attorney Ronald Machen are scheduled to address the media this afternoon regarding the verdict in the South Capitol murder case.
Homicide Watch will have more this afternoon.
Update: The Washington Post reports that four of the five men have been convicted of first-degree murder; the fifth was convicted of lesser charges.
Jurors in the South Capitol murder case are announcing their verdict this morning.
The announcement was still underway shortly after noon.
Look back on the key moments in the case with the roundup after the jump.
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In brief:
Sandy Green III died after being shot multiple times in Southeast DC mid-morning Monday. Andre Miles, a nineteen-year-old Southeast DC man, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of first degree murder in connection with the case.
Dwayne Brisbon was killed in an early morning stabbing on Florida Avenue Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, Lamont Davore was killed in a stabbing near Kenilworth Avenue and Quarles Street NE. Police have arrested 33-year-old David Bolden.
A little more than two weeks after his arrest, Keyon Caldwell pled guilty to one charge of voluntary manslaughter while armed in the shooting death of Draynell Paul Henderson.
Dietrich Baker, a 23-year-old Northeast DC man, was arrested on Sunday in connection with the shooting death of James Ray Sherrod on April 28 on Kenilworth Terrace NE. Baker was ordered held pending a preliminary hearing.
Terrell Brent was sentenced to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the accidental shooting death of Lugus Fleming. The two teens were playing Russian Roulette when Brent shot and killed Fleming.
The deaths of two 19-year-old DC men have been determined to be “justified” by MPD and will not be included in this year’s count of homicide victims. Stephen Horsley and Dalontray Williams were killed in separate incidents two weeks apart in January.
More than seven years after his death, police still have no leads in the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Donte Manning in Columbia Heights.
On Saturday MPD Chief Cathy Lanier was on Morse Street in Trinidad handing out fliers about Melvin Seals’ death four years ago. A $50,000 reward is offered in the case.
