Homicide Watch D.C.

This comment of the day comes from POP, who wrote in about Wyatt Earp Robinson. He said,

if u remember anything about my man it was his heart…real loveable kind of guy. been plenty of times I been wit this man and seen him show love to people in ways that the average person just don’t do. And not just wit money, maybe a big smile and a nice funny warm comment to an old lady while he holding the door for her, or a how are you doing in school to a youngin while he play fighting wit em while he slide him a 20.
I mean so many I can’ t name them all. aint nothing bout my man that anybody can say that can take away from what I know about his heart. ain’t nobody perfect but this was a loving father and baby father,son,brother and friend…..STILL CAN’T BELIEVE I’M WRITING THIS ABOUT HIM(SMH)…….
R.I.P BIG WYATT…..THE SPIRIT LEAVES THE BODY. BUT THE SPIRIT STILL IS……..LUV U BIG HOMIE…….

Appearing lighthearted and occasionally smiling, Kwan Kearney and Jeremy Risper each entered a plea of “not guilty” today to charges related to the November slaying of Jamal Wilson in Northwest D.C.

Kearney and Risper are both charged with premeditated first-degree murder while armed as well as various firearms offenses.

Wilson, a 19-year-old known as “Mally,” was shot through the chest after being pursued by two men in the Truxton Circle neighborhood, MPD Homicide Detective Hosam Nasr testified at a preliminary hearing for the case.

Six days before Wilson was shot, 17-year-old Joseph Alonzo Sharps Jr. was shot and killed in Northeast DC. Nasr said at the preliminary hearing that a .45 caliber gun recovered from the scene of Wilson’s murder is believed to be the same gun that was used in Sharps’ murder. Kearney is charged in both cases and the government has extended a plea deal that offers a 45-year sentence in exchange for pleading guilty in both cases.
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Irving Harris Johnson, from MPD “wanted” poster

Irving Harris Johnson is wanted in connection with the crime, MPD said Monday night in a press release. Johnson, 25, is a black male, 5’10, 160 pounds, with medium complexion and a lazy left eye, said MPD.

Barber and Simmons were shot just before six a.m. on July 9. A third shooting victim survived. Earlier reports indicated that there was gambling at the time of the shooting and that two black males were seen fleeing from the scene.

MPD’s “wanted” poster of Johnson, and their press release, are after the jump.
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Washington’s Other Monuments has this photo, and others, of a memorial for Christopher Freeman, who was killed in a shooting Aug. 5

See more photos of this memorial, and others, at Washington’s Other Monuments.

MPD has announced an arrest in a homicide that took the lives of two men in Northeast DC in January.

Sergio Waynes, a 24-year-old from Silver Spring, Md., was arrested today in connection with the shooting that killed D’Angelo Thompson and Rashid Paul. Waynes is suspected of first-degree murder while armed in the case.

MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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The victim of a Sunday evening shooting in Northeast D.C. has been identified as 33-year-old Wyatt Earp Robinson of Northeast, DC, MPD said in a press release.

No arrests have been announced.

Read the release below.

August 22, 2011

Homicide: 3800 Block of Minnesota Avenue, NE

(Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the fatal shooting which occurred in the 3800 block of Minnesota Avenue, NE.

On Sunday, August 21, 2011, at approximately 6:55 pm, units from the Sixth District responded to the 3800 block of Minnesota Avenue, NE to investigate the sounds of gunshots. Upon their arrival, they observed a male lying on the sidewalk, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel responded to the scene and determined that the victim had no signs consistent with life. Subsequently, the victim was pronounced dead by a member of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The decedent has been identified as 33-year-old Wyatt Earp Robinson of Northeast, DC
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A man was reportedly shot and killed Sunday evening in Northeast DC in a busy strip of Minnesota Avenue.

DC Fire and EMS tweeted just after 8 p.m. that a shooting victim found at Clay Street and Minnesota Avenue NE was dead when emergency responders arrived at the scene.

DC Alerts sent out a message about the shooting, asking those nearby to be on the lookout for a black male, approximately 5-8 or 5-9, of medium complexion, with a goatee and tattoos on his arms. He was wearing a grey shirt and blue jeans, according to the alert.

The victim has not been identified.

NBC Washington reporter Darcy Spencer tweeted a photo from the scene:

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In brief:

• Viola Drath‘s death in Georgetown was ruled a homicide by a medical examiner last Saturday and on Tuesday her husband, Albrecht Muth was arrested in connection with the case. He appeared in DC Superior Court Wednesday and was presented with a charge of second-degree murder. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for the case for Sept. 2.
• Vance Darnell Harris II was killed in a stabbing last Saturday; his girlfriend, Dominique Bassil, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in the case. She appeared in court Monday to be presented with the charge, and Thursday for a preliminary hearing. At the hearing Judge Gerald Fisher did not find probable cause for second-degree murder, instead ruling that evidence at this time shows cause for involuntary manslaughter. Bassil told authorities that she and Harris were engaged in a physical argument when she ran to the kitchen, grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed him.
• Anthony Donnell Peoples was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed in an October 2010 homicide that killed 24-year-old Ronald Johnson in Northwest DC.

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Nita wrote in today about Henry Kelly, reminding readers that his case is still open. The family has built a Facebook page in his memory, and in a search for justice.

Here’s what Nita said:

Not a day go’s by that me and my family dont think about my baby. The person/s responsible for my son’s murder will be brought to justice. www.facebook.com/justice4henry We Love You “Swagg”

On the day he was to go to trial for first-degree murder this week, Samson Alemayhu instead pleaded guilty, admitting that he killed Assefaw Hagos in a fatal stabbing in May 2010 outside an Ethiopian restaurant in Northwest DC.

The charge was dropped to second-degree murder while armed in the plea agreement. The case was scheduled to go to trial Monday.
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