The shooting that left a man dead Tuesday night in Northeast DC was just the latest episode of violence in a neighborhood that has been hit hard in recent weeks.
Since late October 2011, four people have been killed within a half mile of last night’s shooting. Prior to that, no homicides had been reported in the area at least since October 2010.
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A man wanted by MPD in connection with the fatal stabbing of Elaine Coleman has been arrested, MPD announced Tuesday night.
John William Smith Jr., 46, was named as a suspect in Coleman’s death just before New Years Eve. He was believed to be in Baltimore. He was arrested Tuesday at about 4 p.m.; MPD did not say where he was arrested.
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A man shot in the chest Tuesday evening in Northeast DC has died of his injuries, WJLA reports.
He is the second homicide victim of 2012.
A DC Alert was issued at 6:08 p.m. stating that an adult male had been shot in the 1500 block of 45th Street NE.
In a report earlier this evening in the Washington Post and Washington Times, police officials said officers were called to the address just before 6 p.m. and that the victim, at that time, was semi-conscious, but breathing.
NBC Washington has this report about Leroy Studevant, a man found dead in Marvin Gaye Park on New Years Eve. He is considered the first homicide victim of 2012.
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Over the past two weeks, Homicide Watch DC has brought you a special series of stories about 2011 homicides in the District. We’ve published a Q&A with US Attorney Ronald Machen, guest columns from Mayor Vincent Gray and councilmembers, and in-depth looks at cold case investigations, how the judicial process works, and more.
But Homicide Watch certainly wasn’t alone in taking a look at 2011. Here’s how our colleagues at other media outlets covered the stories.
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A man found dead at 8 a.m. on New Years Eve has been ruled the first homicide victim of 2012, MPD said this afternoon.
The man, 56-year-old Leroy Studevant of Northeast DC, was found dead at about 8 a.m. on Dec. 31, 2011 in the 4200 block of Hunt Place, NE. His cause of death was determined to be “strangulation associated with piercing blunt force trauma,” MPD said.
The case is considered the first homicide of 2012 because the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner did not make any findings on Studevant’s cause of death until Jan. 1, 2012.
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A man was found dead in Northeast DC Saturday morning, the 109th homicide victim of 2011.
The death was first reported by Washington Times reporter Andrea Noble.
DC police investigating 109th homicide this year. Man found dead on pathway near 4200 Hunt Place NE around 8am.
— Andrea Noble (@anobleDC) December 31, 2011
The Washington Post reports that MPD spokesman Araz Alali confirmed the death, adding that the unidentified man was found “near a creek under the pathway.”
Every murder case begins, publicly, when a suspect is presented with a charge.
At DC Superior Court, this happens in Courtroom C-10, a large room on the lowest floor of the courthouse. A gallery of benches face the judge, who sits at the top of a three-tiered dais.
Suspects are brought in from the judge’s left. Some wear bright orange jail jumpsuits, others are still dressed in the clothes they were arrested in. All are shackled at their hands and feet.
Nearly every suspect scans the audience for family and friends as they are brought before the judge.
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Trials for more than two dozen murder cases are already scheduled on the 2012 judicial calendar. Dates as far out as Nov. 19 have been penciled into judge’s schedules.
Of murders that have occurred since Oct. 2010, 25 cases are currently scheduled for 2012 trials.
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An additional judge will be assigned to murder cases on a regular basis at D.C. Superior Court in 2012, bringing the total number of judges regularly assigned to murder cases to five.
The decision to add a judge to the Felony 1 calendar of the District’s most serious cases was made by Chief Judge Lee Satterfield. Satterfield also reassigned certain calendars, meaning that cases that were being heard by one judge in 2011 may be heard by another judge in 2012.
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