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.
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In Clay Terrace the shots ring out, first one: bang. Then over and over again. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.

“You heard that?” a young man asks a 911 operator.

“Yes, I heard it,” she says. “I heard it.”

That shooting, recorded in a 911 call early in the morning of Oct. 2, 2010, killed 31-year-old Angelo Jones, a father of two and rumored neighborhood “snitch.”

He was shot six times in the back. When emergency responders arrived, they found him fallen to the ground of the Clay Terrace parking lot where the shooting had taken place.

The 911 recording, which captured more than five minutes of a witness’s conversation with the operator before the shots rang out, was prime evidence in the trial against Rickey Pharr last month.
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This Comment of the Day comes from Anonguest who wrote about Raymond Roseboro‘s mistrial.

I believe Mr. Roseboro committed the crime and lied to the jury when he took the stand but I can understand why the jury did not convict. No impartial witness could identify Mr. Roseboro as the shooter. There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime. The bottom line was did the jury believe the two men who were allegedly with Mr. Roseboro and the victim. Neither of them presented well or represented well for the victim. In fact at least one of them was thought to have been the shooter.
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A Temple Hills, Md. man has been arrested in connection with a 2005 shooting in Northeast DC, MPD said.

James Presley Harris, 31, died in that shooting. Jamel Callis, 26, is suspected of first degree murder while armed, MPD said.

A press release is after the jump.
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MPD on Wednesday night identified a man shot by police in Southeast DC as 19-year-old Kevin Bolden.

Bolden brandished a handgun and fired at an officer before the officer fired back, killing him, MPD said. The officer was not injured.

A press release from MPD and memories of Bolden, shared on Twitter and Facebook, are after the jump.
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A man was killed today by a police officer in Southeast DC, according to reports from Fox5, WUSA, WJLA, and WTOP.

MPD Chief Cathy Lanier told WJLA the shooting took place when someone called police with a drug complaint; a robbery task force unit arrived to check it out.
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This double Comment of the Day comes from two readers, Raymond Cousin and Lockupthelocalviruses, in response to the mistrial declared in Raymond Roseboro‘s case.

Wrote Raymond Cousin:

This is just bizarre and it is not fair to Mr.Roseboro, the jury couldn’t didn’t prove that it was beyond a resonable doubt to find him guilty. Judge Cannon read the instructions 3 times to the jury offering additional instructions. The jury deliberated Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday,Thursday,Friday AND Monday and did not fins him guilty. I think this judge has a problem with Mr.Roseboro. if this jury couldn’t find him guilty then another jury won’t find him guilty. The evidence or the witnesses will NOT change! You have a white man killing a young black 17 year old boy that hasn’t been charged or even in the custody of the law but yet we have a man here that a whole jury of 12 could not fins guilty. The court should be ashamed.

Responded Lockupthelocalviruses:

You sound in denial. What reason would somebody have against your cousin to say they saw him shooting this kid ? come on! Im very disappointed 3 people put him at the scene … he conveniently had a meeting with a job counselor that was 2hrs late (weird) there is enough evidence. I think.. i wonder the makeup of the jury whats the demographic…. this is extremely sad to see… I have also lost faith in the dc court system after this … You mean to tell me that someone can get shot at 4:30pm in the afternoon be seen with the gun shooting a person n the head in day light and get a mistrial ? straight up ridiculous … this hurts my heart on so many level

James Fields, suspected in the shooting death of Christopher Freeman in Southeast DC on August 5, pled innocent to the charges against him Friday.
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Judge Russell Canan declared a mistrial today in the case against Raymond Roseboro, after the jury notified the court for the third time that they were deadlocked.

Roseboro, 21, was charged with first-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of 16-year-old Prince Okorie.

The case went to the jury Tuesday afternoon and jurors spent the week deliberating. The jury sent notes to the court on Wednesday, Friday and Monday saying that they were deadlocked. The foreperson told the court Monday that eight jurors had voted to find Roseboro guilty, and four had voted against finding him guilty.
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Three men, Terry Jimenez, Deonte Bryant, and Terrance Bush, pled not guilty Friday morning to charges stemming from a June shooting that killed Robert Foster Jr.
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