A shooting late Saturday night in Southeast DC killed 21 year-old Davon Paul Gray, MPD reports.
Gray was from Northeast DC, MPD said.
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In brief:
Only two defendants remain in the Latisha Frazier murder case after Laurence Hassan pleaded guilty to killing the 18-year-old DC woman in a beating August last year. Six people were arrested in connection with the case last winter.
Karl Pugh was ordred held after Judge Motley found probable cause that he commited second degree murder when Quentin Ragland was fatally shot in a PCP-fueled tussle.
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Of the six people arrested on suspicion of killing D.C. teenager Latisha Frazier, the US Attorney’s Office has only two open cases against those suspects remaining.
That news follows on the heels of a guilty plea made by one of those co-defendants Friday.
In a three week period last winter, Brian Gaither, Johnnie Sweet, Aneka Nelson, Cinthya Proctor, Laurence Hassan, and Lanee Bell were arrested in connection with Frazier’s disappearance.
Only two defendants, Gaither and Sweet, remain, a source told Homicide Watch Saturday.
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Judge Thomas Motley found probable cause for a charge of second-degree murder in a preliminary hearing today for Karl Pugh, who is being held for the Sept. 20 shooting death of Quentin Ragland in Southeast DC.
Pugh’s defense attorney, Liyah Brown, argued that Pugh was acting in “complete self-defense” at the time of the shooting. Brown said Pugh’s statements to police indicate that he and Ragland had struggled for control of the gun, and that it could have fired accidentally.
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Note: this post has been updated.
Brandon Andrews was ordered held today after Judge William Jackson found probable cause for the second-degree murder charge in the case.
Andrews, 29, is suspected in the shooting death of Leonard Bigelow. Bigelow was killed outside his Northeast DC home in August.
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Damien Pannell pleaded guilty this afternoon to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of Glenn Bailey, a man who Pannell said was fighting with a woman he loved.
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Alexis Pineda pleaded innocent today after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of first degree murder while armed in the March 27 shooting that killed Jose Hernandez-Romero in a downtown D.C. restaurant.
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A D.C. man accused of lying to the Grand Jury in a murder investigation has now been charged with first-degree murder as a co-defendant in the case.
Curtis Patterson, 23, was indicted last Friday on seven charges in connection with the shooting death of Angelo Jones in October 2010. Patterson appeared in court today with his codefendant, Rickey Pharr, who was arraigned on a superseding indictment in the case.
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Deandre Rogers and Deon T. Jenkins were each sentenced today to 32 years incarceration in connection with a 2008 homicide that killed 28-year-old William Foster.
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