A shooting late Friday night in Southeast DC has been ruled a homicide, the Washington Examiner reports.
According to a Facebook message from MPD, the victim was shot in the head. A lookout was issued for a for black male wearing a red, white, and blue jacket.
Initial reports indicated that the victim was a man.
A photo of the crime scene was posted to Twitter at 4 p.m. Saturday.
A man who, along with Jeffrey Covington, was the subject of an armed robbery attempt that left Covington dead, has been charged alongside the shooter who is suspected of murder.
An indictment filed last week charges Jeffrey Blount with obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence, and illegal possession of a firearm. The indictment states that Blount and Covington, known respectively as “Big Jeff” and “Lil’ Jeff,” were the subjects of a robbery perpetrated by William Faison. Faison is charged with first-degree felony murder.
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Three men accused in the shooting death of 71-year-old Solomon Reese have been charged with first-degree felony murder, in addition to conspiracy, burglary, and the armed robbery of a senior citizen.
James Brewer, Stephen Page, and Anthony Thomas were indicted on the charges Tuesday. They each pled innocent to the charges.
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Reginald Vance has pled guilty to being an accessory in the fatal assault on Keith Banks in Nov. 2010.
Banks was 29 years old when he was shot and killed in Northeast D.C. near Fort Circle Parks.
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Keyon Caldwell was ordered held today pending a preliminary hearing on a charge of second degree murder while armed; his defense attorney shushing him through much of the proceedings.
“Can I say something?” Caldwell asked, partially raising a shackled hand.
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Patricia Cave was found “not guilty” of manslaughter while armed today in the stabbing death of her on-again-off-again boyfriend Lamont Warren.
Cave’s defense attorneys had argued that Cave was a victim of domestic violence and the June 2011 stabbing was in self-defense.
Before the jury returned from deliberations, Judge Robert Morin reminded the audience to display no emotion once the verdict was read, and Cave showed only a hint of a smile after the reading.
Once the jury filed out of the courtroom, Cave thanked the judge and walked into arms of the dozen or so supporters who had silently shed tears of joy and gasped at the verdict.
“Thank you, Jesus,” Cave said, with tears in her eyes.
The victim of a shooting last night at the 600 block of 24th Street has been identified as 30-year-old Draynell Paul Henderson. Keyon Caldwell, 33, of Northeast D.C. was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed. Caldwell is expected to be presented this afternoon.
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To the frustrated disappointment of Miguel Drullard‘s family, sixteen-year-old Christian Navarrette-Rivas was sentenced today to six years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the dragging death of 22-year-old Drullard.
Navarrette-Rivas pleaded guilty in January to driving his red Jeep Liberty and intentionally striking Drullard on Oct. 16, 2011. The car drug Drullard as it moved forward and Drullard later died from his injuries.
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Two DC men accused of robbing and shooting down Osman Al-Akbar near Meridian Hill Park in Aug. 2011 have each pleaded innocent to the charges against them.
Rashid Caviness-Bey and Malachi Hargrove, were indicted by the Grand Jury earlier this month on charges of armed robbery, first-degree murder, and felony murder, in addition to weapons violations.
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