The eight men and six women who will decide whether or not Kwan Kearney is guilty of killing Joseph Alonzo Sharps Jr. heard their first overview of the case Monday afternoon.
Joseph Alonzo Sharps, a 17-year-old Spingarn High junior, honor student, varsity athlete, was killed “for nothing,” Prosecutor David Saybolt told jurors in his opening statement.
“He was killed because he was walking down the street in Trinidad,” Saybolt said. “He was killed because he was walking down the street with his hands in his pockets.”
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The woman suspected of killing her half-brother during an argument at their father’s Northeast DC home was released from custody today, even though a judge found substantial probability that she killed the man.
Jewell Washington sat quietly through the proceedings Monday, occasionally taking notes while witnesses spoke.
Her half-brother, Mark Goldring, was fatally stabbed on Oct. 11. MPD Homicide Detective Douglas Carlson testified Monday that Washington was at her father’s house that day and that Goldring, Goldring’s wife, and Goldring’s 18-year-old son all lived there. Carlson said Washington argued that afternoon with Goldring’s wife about some bedding that Washington had come to pickup. Read more
James Speaks pleaded innocent today to a charge of first-degree murder while armed in connection with the shooting death of Shonell Chris Corriea.
Speaks was arrested April 12 on suspicion of second-degree murder. Prosecutors allege that Corriea was killed in a Petworth alley on April 6 after telling his mother he was going outside to take out the trash. Corriea had been checking caller ID numbers on his phone immediately before going outside, prosecutors said.
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The brother of a man arrested in October on suspicion of first-degree murder while armed has been arrested in connection with the same case.
David Warren, the brother of Montez Warren, is suspected of felony murder while armed in the shooting death of Ervin Lamont Griffin. Court records indicate he was presented with the charge on Nov. 9 and is expected for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 16.
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Jury selection is underway this afternoon in the first-degree murder case against Kwan Kearney, charged with the shooting death of Joseph Alonzo Sharps Jr.
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This comment of the day comes from Playa69k1, who wrote in about Elaine Coleman.
She was my neighbor. She also worked at the shoppers food warehouse down the street from my house we would talk from time to time when I would come in the store. And the last time I had seen her we talked about her kids and I talked about mine. A beautiful soul that will be missed but never forgotten.
A man fatally shot in Northeast DC Saturday evening has been identified as 36 year-old Steven Curtis Moore of Northwest, Washington, DC.
A press release from MPD is below.
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A woman killed in Northeast DC just after midnight has been identified as Elaine Coleman, 47, of Northeast, Washington, DC.
A press release from MPD states that she was found suffering from multiple stab wounds. Early reports indicated that the victim in this homicide had been shot.
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In Brief:
A large fight in Dupont Circle last weekend turned fatally violent when 34-year-old Jhonte Coleman of Suitland, MD, was shot. A total of five others were stabbed or shot as well. No arrests have been made.
Rico Matthews was sentenced to 18 years in prison in the charge of second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Jerome Bailey in Nov. 2010. Judge Lynn Leibovitz called the crime, which reportedly was centered on jealousy about a woman, “senseless.” “Two lives have been lost,” she said.
Two people were killed in Northeast DC: at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday night a man was shot multiple times and later died. Just after midnight, a woman was found inside an apartment building. She had been shot in the face.
To learn more about what cases are coming up this week, please see our calendar or The Week Ahead.
WJLA reports that a woman was found shot inside a Northeast DC apartment building just after midnight Sunday.
First District officers found a woman inside of a residence suffering a gunshot wound to her face.
The death is being investigated as a homicide, police said.
In a message on MPD’s First District listserve, Commander Daniel Hickson wrote:
On Sunday December 4, 2011 at approximately 12:28 a.m. the officers of the First District responded to the 500 block of 23 Place NE, where an adult female was discovered inside of her residence suffering from a gunshot wound. Detectives from the Homicide Branch are handling the investigation. No further information is available at this time.
This homicide is about a half mile from where a man was shot and killed about six hours earlier.
