Washington’s Other Monuments has photos of street shrines built in memory of recent homicide victims Lonnie Whitted, Jimmie Lee Simmons III, Domonique Barber and David Eduardo Gonzalez.
The site also has more photos of recently built shrines, including one possibly in memory of Jeffrey Yarnell Covington.
Street shrine in memory of Lonnie Whitted
Street shrine in memory of Jimmie Lee Simmons III and Domonique Barber
Street shrine in memory of David Eduardo Gonzalez
See more photos at Washington’s Other Monuments.
The Washington Blade reports that a vigil for Myles LaShay McLean held Saturday was an emotional affair that left McLean’s mother so overcome that she had to be taken by ambulance to a local hospital at the conclusion of the vigil.
McLean, a 23-year-old transgendered woman, was killed last week in a shooting in Northeast D.C.
“To the family and to the community, I want you to know that we are committed to making sure that justice is done, that this life that has touched many of us will be remembered and the life that she led will be remembered,” said D.C. Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Paul Quander, according to the Blade.
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DC Police are preparing to launch a website dedicated to finding the man who killed 28-year-old Georgetown resident Christine Mirzayan in 1998, the Washington Post reports.
Authorities recently announced that DNA evidence links Mirzayan’s slaying to eight sexual assaults in Montgomery County from 1991 to 1998. In coming weeks, D.C. police said, they will launch a Web site dedicated to the case in the hope that it will bring in new tips.
“There are only a few options: One, he’s dead. Two, he’s incarcerated on something they don’t take DNA for,” said Capt. Michael Farish of the D.C. police’s homicide unit. “I don’t foresee someone committing a progressively violent string of attacks and saying, ‘I’ll never do this again.’ ”
Read more about the case on the Washington Post.
In brief:
Court escapee James Brewer was finally presented with a felony murder charge after being rearrested. Brewer is suspected in the shooting death of Solomon Reese inside an apartment in Southeast DC on June 27. Said his attorney, “It’s clear he was scared and frightened of being convicted of something he didn’t commit.” Later in the week, 18-year-old Stephen Bernard Page, Jr was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder while armed in the case.
A fatal shooting in Petworth killed 23-year-old David Eduardo Gonzalez, a resident of Northwest DC. No arrests have been announced in the case.
Judge William Jackson prohibited D.C.’s public defender service from representing Terry Jimenez, one of three men accused in the shooting death of Robert Foster Jr. following the Caribbean Festival in Northwest D.C. last month. Jackson said based on the government’s evidence, it’s likely that defense attorneys for Jimenez and Terrance Bush, who has been a PDS client for five years, will “invariably point the finger at the other guy.”
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From the US Attorney’s office:
Father Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter In Death of His Seven-Week-Old Son - Defendant Gave Misleading Information to Medical Personnel -
WASHINGTON - Hiawatha Henry, 19, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to one count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his infant son, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
Henry pled guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The Honorable Gerald I. Fisher scheduled sentencing for September 23, 2011. Henry faces a maximum statutory sentence of 30 years in prison.
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Each Friday, Homicide Watch brings you a tickler of which murder cases are coming up in the DC courts. Next week brings four preliminary hearings: Deonte Bryant, Terrance Bush and Terry Jimenez in the shooting death of Robert Foster Jr., Phillip Swan, Theodore Spencer and Terrell Wilson in the death of Glenn Scarborough, and Rodney McIntyre in the stabbing death of Ebony Franklin.
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Lashai Mclean, in a Facebook memorial poster
reports that a vigil has been planned in memory of
Myles LaShay McLean, a 23-year-old transgender woman who was shot to death in Northeast
DC this week.
According to Metro Weekly, the vigil is organized by Earline Budd of Transgender Health Empowerment and Ruby Corado with the DC Trans Coalition.
It will take place Saturday at 7 p.m. at 61st and Dix Streets NE.
An 18-year-old DC man was arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with the fatal shooting of 71-year-old Solomon Reese, MPD reports.
Stephen Bernard Page, Jr is facing a charge of first-degree murder while armed in the case.
Page is the second person arrested in the case. Last week James Brewer was presented with a charge of first-degree murder while armed. In Brewer’s charging documents, prosecutors described four suspects caught on surveillance video near the apartment where Reese was killed.
MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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Government prosecutors said Thursday that a man suspected by D.C. authorities of taking part in the Sept. 2010 murder of Darrel Hendy is currently in custody in Maryland and awaiting a first-degree murder trial there.
AUSA Emily Miller told Judge Thomas Motley that Corey Yates is expected to stand trial in Maryland on Aug. 15. WTOP reported that Yates, 21, was wanted in connection with the Dec. 2010 shooting death of Doodley Derose in Wheaton. Wheaton Patch reported that Yates turned himself in to authorities.
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Robert Carter today pleaded innocent to all 24 criminal charges against him, including one count of premeditated first degree murder for the shooting death of his 13-year-old daughter Angel Morse.
Carter’s attorney entered the plea on his behalf and told Judge Thomas Motley that he would likely be pursuing an insanity defense on behalf of Carter.
“I’m pretty confident this is the way we’ll be going,” said attorney Steven Kiersh, mentioning that he had reviewed many of Carter’s medical records back to his teen years.
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