Each Friday, Homicide Watch brings you a tickler 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 calendar, email homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com.
On Monday, Theodore Spencer is expected by Judge Thomas Motley for a second day of a preliminary hearing. Spencer is one of three men suspected in the death of Glenn Scarborough in Trinidad in June.
Terry Jimenez is due Tuesday before Judge William Jackson for a second day of a preliminary hearing. Jimenez is one of three men suspected in the shooting death of Robert Foster Jr. following a Caribbean Festival in Northwest DC this summer. The hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m.
On Wednesday, Patricia Cave is expected for a preliminary hearing in front of Judge Lynn Leibovitz. Cave is suspected in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Lamont Warren.
Friday, Reginald Vance and Derrell Bennett are due for a status conference with Judge Lynn Leibovitz. They are suspected in the shooting death of Keith Banks last November. The case has not yet been indicted.
Also Friday, Malik Shabbaz is expected for a preliminary hearing in connection with the fatal assault on Demetrius Dempsey in June 2007. Judge Gerald Fisher is assigned to the case.
Please remember that court dates can change, even at the last minute. To view the docket of a case please go to the D.C. Courts website and search by the defendant’s name.
Twenty-one-year-old William Faison was ordered held yesterday on suspicion of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Jeffrey Covington on July 2.
Charging documents allege that Faison, identified by witnesses, was in pursuit of one of Covington’s buddies and had pushed Covington out of the way to better aim a gun at the friend. When the friend took off and Faison pursued him, Covington pulled out a gun and pointed it at Faison.
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A 22-year-old YouTube rapper was presented with a first-degree murder charge today at D.C. Superior Court, with prosecutors alleging that he shot and killed a 19-year-old at a neighborhood cookout last spring.
Marc Tapp, a Columbia Heights resident known as “Goo”, is suspected in the shooting death of Jermaine Anderson at “Ivy City Day” in May.
Charging documents allege that Tapp and Anderson were both present at an Ivy City Day on May 8, despite the fact that neither man lived in Ivy City.
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A 22-year-old Northwest DC man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Jermaine Anderson, MPD said this morning.
Marc Terrence Tapp is expected to be charged with first-degree murder while armed.
MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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MPD this afternoon identified the victim of a fatal stabbing in Northwest DC early Wednesday morning as 24 year-old Marcellus Terrell Bailey.
A press release is below.
August 3, 2011
Homicide: 5300 block of 8th Street, NW
(Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the fatal stabbing which occurred in the 5300 block of 8th Street, NW.
On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, at approximately 2:45 am, units from the Fourth District responded to the 5300 block of 8th Street, NW to investigate the report of a stabbing. Upon their arrival, they observed a male suffering from a laceration to his body. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel responded to the scene and transported the victim to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
The decedent has been identified as 24 year-old Marcellus Terrell Bailey of Northwest, DC
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A man died after being stabbed early this morning in Northwest DC, MPD reports on the Fourth District listserve.
It is the District’s first homicide since July 20, when Myles LaShay McLean was killed in a Northeast DC shooting.
From MPD:
Just before 3 am, units received a call for a stabbing at the 5300 blk of 8th St. NW. Upon arrival, an adult male was located suffering from an apparent stab wound and was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced. This case is under investigation by the Homicide Branch. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-888-919-CRIM(E).
A 21-year-old Southeast D.C. man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Jeffrey Yarnell Covington
MPD identified the suspect as William Faison.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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From MPD:
Police Investigation Involving Victims from the Transgender Community
The Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating two separate incidents and is seeking help from the community.
The first crime is the homicide shooting of Myles ‘Lashay’ Mclean . This occurred on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at approximately 4:30 a.m. in the 6100 block of Dix Street NE. The victim and a witness were in the block when two subjects walked directly towards them. One subject started asking a question, and without provocation pulled a semi-automatic handgun and fired, killing the victim. The suspects are described as two black males in their late teens to early 20s. The first suspect is described as being 6-feet-tall with a thin build and light complexion. The shooter is described as being shorter and having a darker complexion than the other suspect. The case is being investigated by the Homicide Branch.
The recent case happened Sunday, July 31, 2011 at approximately 2:45 a.m. The victim was in the 6200 block of Dix Street NE when a suspect approached on foot. The suspect asked for change and without waiting for a reply pulled a semi-automatic handgun and shot at the victim, without hitting the victim. The suspect is described as a black male, 17-19 years old, 5‘6”, 180 lbs, dark complexion. The case is being investigated by the Sixth District Detectives Unit.
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In brief:
MPD is preparing to launch a website seeking the killer of 28-year-old Georgetown resident Christine Mirzayan, who was attacked and killed in 1998.
A vigil was held for 23-year-old transgendered woman Myles LaShay McLean, who was killed earlier this month in Northeast DC.
Oma Crawford pleaded guilty to fatally shooting 36-year-old Ralph Thomas outside McKinley Tech High School in June.
Rodney McIntyre pleaded guilty to premeditated first-degree murder while armed in the death of his 17-year-old daughter, Ebony Franklin.
Cinthya Proctor pleaded guilty to participating in the killing of Latisha Frazier last August. Proctor could be sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to tamper with evidence in the case.
Nathaniel Phillips was sentenced to just over 11 years in prison for the stabbing death of Theresa Hungerford in June 2010.
Phillip Swan and Terell Wilson were ordered held in the murder of 71-year-old Glenn Scarborough in his home last month. Defense attorneys for the men questioned the validity of their confessions, arguing that there was evidence that they could have been coerced.
Rend Smith’s profile of Cathy Lanier in Washington City Paper this week has prompted an intense online conversation about the Chief’s popularity— and effectiveness— in DC.
Smith looks at Lanier’s approval rating (“cosmic 84 percent”), muses on the possibility that she could run for mayor (“she’s a Ward 5 resident whose blue-collar affectations play best in the parts of town where her original patron, Fenty, got his butt kicked”), reports a little on her background (after becoming a teen mom she got her GED and tried waitressing and sales before a boyfriend encouraged her to apply to MPD), and looks into Lanier’s policing style (” stop viewing crime stats in isolation, instead factoring in details like “population density, demographic trends, projected economic development, physical infrastructure” to create a broader picture.”).
Read the City Paper story (and comments thread) here.
