A third person has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Robert Foster following Northwest D.C.’s Caribbean Festival late last month.
MPD announced this evening that 19 year-old Terrance Marquis Bush of Northeast D.C. is suspected of taking part in the deadly shooting and has been arrested on a charge of second degree murder while armed.
Terry Jimenez and Deonte Bryant are awaiting preliminary hearings in the same case.
Read MPD’s press release after the jump.
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This past October, Deonte Bryant was enrolled at Langston University in Oklahoma. A five hundred dollar scholarship from Ward 1 Councilman Jim Graham was helping pay his way and DYRS specialist Fred Rogers thought Bryant had a “real opportunity to change his life.”
Today Bryant sits in D.C. Jail.
In an email to Homicide Watch Graham wrote of Bryant:
I strongly believe everyone, especially our young, youthful offenders, sometimes need a second chance, sometimes a third and fourth chance to get their lives on track. However, those chances / opportunities need to be coupled with verification and close monitoring by the agency. I don’t have any information why, when or how Mr. Bryant returned to DC. DYRS never communicated to me his return, although my staff made several attempts, beginning in April, 2011 to check on his status. DYRS never fully responded to those requests. Unfortunately, the first news I had regarding Deonte was when I read he was arrested.
Bryant was arrested July 5 by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force and the following day presented with a second-degree murder charge at D.C. Superior Court.
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MPD this evening identified two men killed in a triple shooting in Columbia Heights Saturday morning as 32-year-old Jimmie Lee Simmons III and 31-year-old Domonique Barber. Both men were from Northwest D.C.
A third victim was admitted to the hospital in grave condition, MPD said.
Family and friends of the men commented on the crime and left memorial messages online throughout the day. Homicide Watch has gathered some of those messages.
MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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In Brief:
Read Homicide Watch’s earlier coverage of the incident here.
Two people were killed and one was injured in a shooting in Columbia Heights just before 6 a.m. Saturday.
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NBC Washington reports that the victims are all adult men in their twenties and thirties and appeared to all be from the area.
Councilman Jim Graham sent the following information to the Columbia Heights listserve:
Dear Friends,
Sadly, I must inform you that, just before 6 AM this morning, three people were shot in the 1400 block of Parkwood Place. Two were shot in the head and are dead. A third victim is in critical condition. The ages and identities of the victims have not been determined, but preliminary reports are that they may have been adults. More will be known soon.
A weapon was recovered from the victim who went to the hospital.
Two Black males were seen running from the area on foot. But no suspects at this time.
Motives unclear, although there is a suggestion that they may have been gambling on the scene.
More information to be provided as it becomes available.
Councilmember Jim Graham
Capital Alert issued a warning after the incident.
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The lookout information was for two black males, one with dreads, a black t-shirt and black shorts and the other only described as wearing shorts.
WTOP and NBC Washington report that surveillance cameras are located on Parkwood Place and one is equipped with a microphone.
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A young DC man and his mother were both sentenced today for crimes connected to the fatal beating that killed Carlos Bernard Alexander, a 47-year-old man with a severe heart condition.
Daquan Johnson, who was 18-year-old when he was arrested about two weeks after Alexander died, was sentenced to ten years in prison by Judge Gerald Fisher. Johnson pleaded guilty in May to voluntary manslaughter and robbery in the case.
His mother, who gave the grand jury an untrue alibi about Johnson’s whereabouts the night of the murder and tried to convince other witnesses to lie to the grand jury, too, was sentenced to two years in prison. Her sentence was suspended on the condition that she complete two years of supervised probation.
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A twenty-year-old DC man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for two murders which took place in 1998 and 1999.
Cornell Scrivner pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in both cases.
USAO’s press release is after the jump.
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Theodore Spencer, a 21-year-old man from Orange County VA, was visiting his mother in the hospital last month when he overheard doctors talking about her health.
His mother, he heard, had been sexually assaulted and had contracted an STD, which had caused her cancer to worsen.
Spencer, who was arrested on suspcion of first degree murder on Thursday, blamed his mother’s boyfriend, whom he had never liked.
That’s according to charging documents filed Thursday in DC Superior Court. Spencer, Terrell Wilson and Phillip Swan were arrested Thursday and each confessed to a roughly similar story of how, and why, Glenn Scarborough was killed.
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“I know a million sorries won’t ever bring her back,” Damon Sams, shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit told the family of Ashley McRae today in DC Superior Court. “I never meant to shoot her. I wanted to make sure Ashley got home safe.”
The words moved many of the two dozen people gathered in Judge Gerald Fisher’s courtroom for Sams’ sentencing to tears.
McRae’s family, wearing t-shirts in memory of the 21-year-old they called “Mama,” sobbed through much of Sams’ long statement to them and to the court, then gasped audibly when Sams, 23, turned to Fisher with this plea:
“A million tears and I can’t bring her back. That being said, Judge Fisher, I’m ready for my sentence.”
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