The Washington Post reports that a woman was killed Tuesday afternoon in a stabbing near the Joseph H. Cole Recreation Center in Northeast D.C.
From the Post:
Police took one man into custody near the scene. The victim and attacker apparently knew each other, said a police source, who declined to be named because the investigation is ongoing.
The Washington Post this morning has a plea from Bobby Jackson‘s father. He wants anyone who might know what happened to his son to come forward.
Jackson, 29, was found dead of a gunshot wound in the 5900 block of Eads Street, NE shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 25.
Reports the Post:
Jackson, 29, was expecting a second child, according to Bobby Jackson Sr., who said his son’s troubled childhood included dropping out of Ballou High School at 16 to work at fast-food restaurants.
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Another roundup of coverage of the Albrecht Muth murder case is after the jump. Read what the Washington Post, WTOP, City Paper and others had to say.
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Kevin Clark and Donald Crosland today pleaded guilty to charges that they shot and killed 17-year-old Ricardo Minger in a Southeast D.C. apartment in January.
Clark, 23, and Crosland, 17, could be sentenced to five to thirty years in prison for the crime.
The voluntary manslaughter plea is a significant reduction from the first-degree murder charge they were each indicted on in June.
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The morning Marcellus Bailey was killed, a witness says, Bailey and Davon Holmes were “talking and laughing” together.
Then suddenly Holmes swung out, hitting Bailey in the neck. Says another witness, it became apparent that Bailey had been stabbed when he started bleeding profusely.
That’s according to charging documents presented to Holmes in court Saturday, when he was presented with a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Bailey’s death.
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In brief:
In crime news:
A transgender woman was found unconscious in Columbia Heights and later died; MPD has said her death may be a homicide but are awaiting an official determination from the Medical Examiner’s office.
In courts news:
Calvin Monroe pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of 27-year-old Lonnie Whitted, who was killed in the 1900 block of 18th Street SE on July 7.
Curtis Weeks and Aaron Andrews were each sentenced to forty years incarceration in the shooting death of Reggie Cook on September 25, 2009.
Terry Jimenez was ordered held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of Robert Foster Jr, who was killed in a shoot-out following the Caribbean Festival in Columbia Heights in June.
Davon Holmes, a 28-year-old Northwest DC man, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed in connection with the stabbing death of 24-year-old Marcellus Terrell Bailey on Aug. 3.
Albrecht Muth was ordered held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Viola Drath, at their Georgetown home on Aug. 12.
Irving Harris Johnson of Northwest D.C. was arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder while armed and one count of assault with intent to kill in connection with a triple shooting that killed Domonique Barber and Jimmie Lee Simmons III on July 9.
Rashid Caviness-Bey was ordered held on suspicion of felony murder in the death of Osman Al-Akbar in Columbia Heights on Aug. 17.
This Comment of the Day is from “Naybor,” who wrote about a possible homicide of a transgender women in Columbia Heights Saturday.
I live across the street from where this happened. I didn’t hear a thing and I feel badly that I could not have done something to stop this. I just wanted to let whoever did this know that there are children that live in the house where you left this person to die.Read more
A person who died after being found unconscious early this morning in Columbia Heights is a transgender woman and her death may be a homicide, the Washington Blade reports.
D.C. police suspect a transgender woman who was found unconscious on the street at 11th and Fairmont streets, N.W., about 4 a.m. Saturday and who died a short time later at Howard University Hospital was the victim of a homicide.
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The shooting death of 19-year-old Osman Al-Akbar in Columbia Heights was a robbery “gone bad,” according to the government’s evidence, but the defense attorney for one of the teens accused in the murder doesn’t buy that.
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A man wanted by D.C. police in connection with a triple shooting in Columbia Heights this July has been arrested.
According to a message on the Third District listserve, Irving Harris Johnson of Northwest D.C. was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder while armed and one count of assault with intent to kill.
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