A Grand Jury today indicted Robert Carter for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his daughter, 13-year-old Angel Morse.
Carter was indicted on a total of 23 additional charges related to the killing, including wounding two others, holding six people against their will, and carjacking.
Charging documents allege that Carter shot Morse once through the head while the girl was in the basement of the family’s northwest DC home. Afterwards, witnesses, some of whom were held in the house by Carter, reported to police that Carter told them “he shot and killed Angel because she wouldn’t listen.”
A witness also reported to police that Carter said “Angel is in the basement… I didn’t mean to do it.”
Carter is due in court tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 9:30 in Judge Motley’s courtroom.
A press release from the US Attorney’s Office is after the jump, along with charging documents in the case and the indictment.
MPD just released the following information on a fatal shooting in Northeast DC early this morning.
July 20, 2011
Homicide in the 6100 block of Dix Street, NE
( Washington, DC) —Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide that occurred in the 6100 block of Dix Street, NE.
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at approximately 4:26 am, members of the Sixth District responded to the report of a shooting in the 6100 block of Dix Street, NE. Upon arrival on the scene, they found a victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel transported the victim to a local hospital where the victim was pronounced dead. Read more
Friends of 23-year-old transgendered woman Lashay McLean responded today to news of her death. If you like, leave your memorial messages at the end of the post.
McLean was a client of Transgender Health Empowerment and well known to staff there, Metro Weekly reports.
THE’s program director, Brian Watson, told Metro Weekly:
”We haven’t gotten any information from GLLU or anything, that’s why we still don’t know what’s going on. … We don’t know if police have anyone in custody, we don’t know if they got away, we do know that someone was with Shay, but we don’t even know who that was.”
Read their full report, with a photo of McLean, here.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier today reported to Mayor Vincent C. Gray a homicide overnight at 6110 Dix Street NE in which the victim of a fatal shooting was a transgender person. Jeffrey D. Richardson, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs, also was advised of the incident. At this time MPD officials say they have no information to indicate that this is a hate crime. However, it is very early in the investigation. Read more
At around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 6100 block of Dix Street NE, the victim was approached by two men and words were exchanged, police said. One of the suspects pulled out a handgun and fatally shot the victim, identified by police as Myles McLean, of the Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast Washington.
Capt. Michael Farish, head of the homicide branch, said the exchange was brief and there was no announcement of a robbery and nothing mentioned about sexual orientation.
WJLA and the Washington Times are reporting that a shooting early this morning in Northeast D.C. has claimed one life. Read more
Judge William Jackson today 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.
PDS has represented one of Jimenez’ codefendants in the case, a rival gang member, for about five years and Jackson said there were no steps that could be taken to ensure that there wasn’t a conflict of interest, or appearance of any conflict.
Jackson said that based on the government’s evidence in the case, it’s likely that defense attorneys for Jimenez and Terrance Bush will “invariably point the finger at the other guy.” Read more
MPD today identified the victim of a fatal shooting in Petworth early this morning as 23-year-old David Eduardo Gonzalez, a northwest DC resident.
MPD’s press release is below.
July 19, 2011
Homicide: 900 Block of Randolph Street, NW
(Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the fatal shooting which occurred in the 900 block of Randolph Street, NW.
On Tuesday July 19, 2011, at approximately 3:08 am, Units from the Fourth District responded to the 900 block of Randolph Street, NW to investigate the report of a shooting. Upon their arrival, they observed a male suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel responded to the scene and determined that the victim had no signs consistent with life. The victim was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and was pronounced dead.
The decedent has been identified as 23 year-old David Eduardo Gonzalez of Northwest, DC Read more
MPD reports this morning on the Fourth District listserve that a man was killed in a shooting early this morning in Petworth.
Units received a call for a man down-possible shooting in the 900 blk of Randolph St. NW just after 3 am. Upon arrival, a male victim was located suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim is deceased. This case is being investigated by the Homicide Branch. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-888-919-CRIM(E).
The following early morning message from DC Alerts went out about the incident.
It was James Brewer‘s second court appearance in four days, but the first one in which he gave his real name.
Shackled and flanked by US Marshals, Brewer appeared in DC Superior Court Monday afternoon to be presented with the felony murder charge authorities had anticipated presenting him with on Friday.
That plan was foiled when Brewer exchanged identification bracelets with another defendant and called out that man’s name when asked to identify himself. Brewer, posing as the other defendant, was released from custody, walked out of the courthouse and away from the felony murder charge.
“It’s clear he was scared and frightened of being convicted of something he didn’t commit,” his defense attorney, Michael Satin, said Monday. Read more
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