Homicide Watch D.C.

Mothers of shooting victims injured and killed in the South Capitol Street shooting took the stand this week in the trial of five men charged with murder in the case.
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In brief:

A man stabbed to death at Library Bar and Grill near Catholic University was identified as 34-year-old James Barrington Johnson.

Curtis Patterson pled guilty to illegal possession of a firearm and obstruction of justice in connection with the shooting death of Angelo Jones. Patterson had been a co-defendant with Rickey Pharr, who was convicted of first-degree murder. The cases were severed just before Pharr’s trial began.

Raymond Roseburo, accused of killing 16-year-old Prince Okorie in Nov. 2010, took the stand in his own defense to proclaim his innocence. Deliberations in that case began Tuesday and have not yet finished. On Friday, the jury said it remained deadlocked. Judge Russell Canan instructed jurors to return Monday and continue working towards a verdict.

Meanwhile, the trial of Kwan Kearney and Jeremy Risper, accused in the shooting death of Jamal Wilson, went to the jury Thursday morning. By midday, jurors had returned guilty verdicts for Kearney and Risper on all counts. Sentencing for both men is scheduled for June 15.

Raymond Faunteroy was arrested in the Dec. 2011 shooting death of 19-year-old Derrick Ragland. Detectives in the case say Faunteroy tried to buy a gun from Ragland days before, but was robbed.

A second-degree murder charge against Aaron Adams was dismissed. Adams had been suspected in the stabbing death of Garrett Armand White.

A Grand Jury returned a 24-count indictment against Terry Jimenez, Deonte Bryant, and Terrance Bush, including charges of first-degree murder, assault with intent to kill, and aggravated assault. All three were allegedly involved in a shootout at last year’s Caribbean Festival that killed Robert Foster Jr, a bystander. The three co-defendants pleaded innocent on Friday.

An attack on a pregnant woman is being investigated as a homicide because the woman’s eight-month-old fetus died. The child, identified as Kuron Rashad Hunt, was born after his mother was stabbed in the abdomen. The mother survived but Hunt, delivered after the stabbing, died shortly after.

Shawn Davis was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the stabbing death of Tawanna Barnes-Copeland. Davis pled guilty to second-degree murder in November 2011, two months after being indicted on a charge of first-degree murder.

The victim of a fatal stabbing last weekend in Brookland has been identified as James Barrington Johnson, MPD said.

Johnson was killed in a stabbing early Sunday morning at The Library nightclub near Catholic University.

A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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MPD reports that the death of an eight-month old fetus, who died after being delivered Thursday, has been ruled a homicide.

The child, identified as Kuron Rashad Hunt, was born after his mother was stabbed in the abdomen. The mother survived but Hunt, delivered after the stabbing, died shortly after.

A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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The jury in the Raymond Roseboro case did not reach a verdict today, instead sending a second note to Judge Russell Canan that they were deadlocked.

The note came at about 2:30 in the afternoon; Canan instructed the jury to continue deliberating. When a verdict had not been reached at the end of the day he excused jurors until 9:30 a.m. Monday.

Holding her granddaughter close to her side, Brenda Smith Sledge stood before her daughter’s killer this morning to tell him how much her family had lost.

“Shawn knew our family. He know how close we were,” she said. “This is horrific.” Her words broken by sobs.

Sledge’s daughter, Tawanna Barnes-Copeland, was brutally stabbed to death early in the morning of Dec. 7, 2010. She had injured her leg at work the night before and was placed in a cast and sent home. She called her ex-boyfriend, Shawn Davis, to help her fill a prescription for pain medication.
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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.

Week Ahead begins after the jump.
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The jury tasked with determining Raymond Roseboro‘s guilt in the shooting death of Prince Okorie is expected to enter its fourth day of deliberations Friday morning.

Jurors appeared frustrated as they entered the courtroom at the end of the day Thursday. Several sighed as they took their seats.
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A Grand Jury yesterday returned a 24-count indictment against Terry Jimenez, Deonte Bryant, and Terrance Bush, including charges of first-degree murder, assault with intent to kill, and aggravated assault.

Jimenez, Bryant, and Bush are expected to be arraigned on the charges Friday morning, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office said.
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UPDATED at 2:13 p.m. Thursday with a press release at the bottom of the post.

The Washington Times reports that an attack on a pregnant woman in DC last night is being investigated as a homicide because the woman’s eight-month-old fetus died. The woman survived.
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