A man shot Saturday evening in Northeast DC has died of his injuries, MPD reports.
Said Fifth District Commander Andy Solberg in a message on a community listserv,
Saturday evening at about 6:45 pm, a man was shot and killed in the 1100 block of 21st St., NE.
We do not have anyone in custody in connection to this and we ask that anyone with any information please call 727-9099.
Firefighters reported last night that a person had been shot multiple times and had been transported to the hospital.
In 1993, there were 454 murders in Washington, D.C. But in almost every year since, the number of murders has dropped. The same has happened in almost every other major American city, for reasons experts have struggled to explain.
Over the same period, the price of cocaine has plummeted. As the Atlantic Cities explains, this may have made the drug trade just unprofitable enough to take low-level dealers off the streets, and to dramatically reduce the amount of violent crime associated with dealing.Read more
This comment of the day comes from Chrisjones who wrote in about Jeffrey Yarnell Covington and William Faison.
its not okay! this aint no video game man! its real out here. u dont put urself in situations where u need to pack that. if u feel the need to carry gun whereever u are, u dont need to be there. r.i.p. to ur fam! but we have to start being smart and make better choices. but u gotta think. if a gun was bein carried, there is a possibility that someone was gonna get hurt or killed eventually. its cold out here. lets find other things to do with our time besides runnin da streets and hangin wit these fakes that claim they are our friends. sorry for ur loss!
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.
On Monday, Kwan Kearney is expected to go to trial on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Joseph Alonzo Sharps Jr. last November. Sharps was a 17-year-old high school student when he was killed. Judge Thomas Motley will preside.
Jewell Washington is expected for a preliminary hearing with Judge Gerald Fisher. Washington is suspected of second-degree murder in the October stabbing of Mark Goldring, who is either her half- or step-sibling, according to charging documents.
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MPD Chief Cathy Lanier was on WTOP’s Ask the Chief program yesterday. She spoke about the Sunday morning’s Dupont Circle shooting that killed Jhonte Coleman.
There’s still a lot of investigative work going on. We’re making a lot of progress. We don’t have an arrest yet, but there has been progress made.
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Gregory Trotter and Ernest Pee Jr. were found guilty of felony murder yesterday in connection with the robbery of a check-cashing store in Northeast D.C.
Trotter, 59, and Pee, 50, could be sentenced to life in prison without release. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 10.
The victim in the case, thirty-year-old Prabhjot Singh, was fatally shot in the robbery.
Reported the Washington Post:
Singh was killed trying to help one of the store’s customers during the robbery, said prosecutors Deborah Sines and Adam Schwartz. When Trotter grabbed a woman who was in the store, they said, Singh lunged from behind the counter and tackled him. The two men wrestled and rolled out onto the sidewalk, where Trotter allegedly yelled “get off me” to Singh before shooting Singh in the left eye.
“One shot was all Mr. Trotter needed,” Sines told the jury.
A press release from the US Attorney’s Office is after the jump.
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A man on trial for killing his wife was found guilty Monday of first-degree premeditated murder while armed.
Elizabeth Patrice Singleton was killed in her Southeast DC home in March 1999.
Said the US Attorney’s office:
During the last six months of her life, the victim, Elizabeth Patrice Singleton, 32, sought and received both civil protection and stay-away orders against [Lawrence] Davis, who had attempted to reconcile with her after he spent six years in prison.Read more
Legislation to force D.C. nightclubs to increase security may be in the works after this weekend’s Dupont Circle fight that left one man dead and five others injured, D.C. Councilman Jack Evans said yesterday.
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This Comment of the Day comes from “Anonymous for good reason” who wrote in about Lucki Pannell. Pannell was 18 years old when she was shot and killed in February. No arrests have been made in connection with her case.
My heart is so heavy today. I have cried constantly today because it is your birthday. You should be celebrating with your loved ones. I still can’t believe that this happened to you. You were so sweet to me, and you knew when to be sweet and when to be tough. I loved that about you. You knew how to survive anywhere you went but you couldn’t survive on your own front porch. Read more
It was just a little over a year ago that Rico Matthews was playing video games with friends when Jerome Bailey knocked on the door, entered the home and, in what prosecutors described as a “jealous rage,” chased Matthews through the house shooting at him.
Today Judge Lynn Leibovitz called that crime “senseless.”
“Two lives have been lost,” she said just before sentencing Bailey to 18 years in prison on the charge of second-degree murder.
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