Police have identified the victim in an overnight shooting in the 600 block of Edgewood Street Northeast as 30-year-old Joseph Denard Southall.
Southall, who has no fixed address, was found with gunshot wounds at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, police said in a statement. MPD’s press release is below.
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A man shot and killed inside a Kenilworth Terrace apartment building yesterday has been identified as 22-year-old James Ray Sherrod of Northeast DC.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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In brief:
US Marine Michael Poth was presented with a charge of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of fellow Marine Philip Bushong.
The seven men convicted of the brutal 1984 H Street murder of Catherine Fuller were in court Monday, the first day of a hearing on new evidence which they hope may set them free.
Gary Dederichs, a 66-year-old nurse visiting from Denver, Colo., was found unconscious in a Petworth alley Tuesday and was pronounced dead a few hours later. Police believe he is part of a string of bludgeoning attacks in that neighborhood, in which four others have been injured. Michael Davis, 19, has been arrested on suspicion in two of those attacks and charged with assault with intent to kill.
Meeko Carraway was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the shooting death of 29-year-old Darrel Hendy.
Albrecht Muth has been ruled incompetent to stand trial, but a mental health report leaves open the possibility that he could be ready to stand trial in October. Muth is accused of killing his wife, 91-year-old Viola Drath.
A judge found substantial probability that Raymond Faunteroy, 26, killed 19-year-old Derrick Ragland in December 2011. Police believe Faunteroy shot Ragland as revenge for robbing him days earlier.
The South Capitol trial has gone to the jury. Five men are accused in the mass shooting that left five others—all under age 20—dead in March 2010.
Rickey Pharr was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the shooting death ofAngelo Jones in Clay Terrace in 2010.
A shooting inside a Kenilworth Terrace apartment killed a man Saturday.
A man was shot and killed at about 1:30 Sunday morning in Northeast DC. The victim has not been identified.
A man died after being shot Saturday afternoon on Kenilworth Terrace, the Washington Post reports.
The homicide was first reported by Alan Henney on Twitter:
U/D DC: 776 Kenilworth Terr NE is a confirmed HOMICIDE. SWAT team has been canceled.
— Alan Henney (@alanhenney) April 28, 2012
Henney later added that the man was found shot in a stairwell of an apartment building on the street.
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A man was shot and killed at about 1:30 Sunday morning in Northeast DC, Fifth District Commander Andy Solberg reported to the 5D listserv.
He wrote:
This morning at about 1:30 am, officers responding to a call at 601 Edgewood St., NE, found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.
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A Denver man found dead in Petworth Tuesday evening may have been killed by a strike from a claw-tooth hammer, the same type of weapon that police believe was used in at least two other attacks in the same neighborhood this week and the same type of weapon found in the backpack of DC teen Michael Davis at the time of his arrest.
That’s according to court documents presented to Davis today at DC Superior Court. Davis, 19, is suspected of two counts of assault with intent to kill.
While he has not been charged with murder, documents in those two cases provide a glimpse into the evidence collected so far in connection to Gary Dederichs’ death.
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Rickey Pharr was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for the shooting death of Angelo Jones in Clay Terrace in 2010.
Pharr, 28, was found guilty of first-degree murder in February.
A press release from the US Attorney’s Office is after the jump.
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A 19-year-old Petworth man is suspected in a series of attacks this week in that neighborhood and has been taken into custody, NBC Washington reports.
Sources told News4 that investigators recovered a claw hammer that they believe could be the weapon used in all four attacks in the area.
The teen is being charged in Thursday night’s attack and is being questioned in the other three.
Denver man Gary Dederichs was found dead of head trauma in Northwest DC Tuesday evening, two more people have been been found with serious head injuries near where Dederichs was found, MPD Chief Cathy Lanier said Thursday afternoon.
Those people, a 53-year-old male and an adult female, remain hospitalized.
A fourth attack in the area was reported Thursday night. Chief Cathy Lanier said at a press conference Friday morning that that victim, a 19-year-old woman, sustained a serious injury but is reported to be stable.
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Note: On Tuesday Chief Judges Eric Washington and Lee Satterfield are expected to host a Twitter conversation with the public through the court’s Twitter account @DCCourtsInfo.
Have a question for the judges? Tweet it with the hashtag #AsktheCJs any time before 2pm on Tuesday, May 1. Judges will be online between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Note that judges cannot discuss specific cases.
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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Chief Cathy Lanier is expected to update the media at 10 a.m. this morning on a series of assaults in Northwest DC, including on that killed 66-year-old Denver man Gary Dederichs.
