Homicide Watch D.C.

Each Friday, Homicide Watch brings you a tickler of which murder cases are coming up in the DC courts. Four preliminary hearings are scheduled for the week in the cases of those accused of killing Isaiah Harris, Lamont Warren, Jinnell McQueen and Delonte Butler.

This information is current as of Thursday June 7. 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. To add an item to the calendar, email homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com.
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Three Virginia men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing Northeast DC man Glenn Scarborough at his home in Trinidad on June 19.

Phillip Charles Swan, 19, Theodore Spencer, 21, and Terrell Antwuan Wilson, 19, are suspected of first degree murder in the case.

MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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MPD today announced that Cederick Lorenzo Shuler was arrested on suspicion of first degree murder in two cases: one from 1998 and one from 1999.

Shuler appeared in court last week to be arraigned following a grand jury indictment in one of the cases that Shuler was arrested on today.

The victims were 26-year-old Renee Best and 29 year-old Edward C. Gray, both of Northwest DC.

Read MPD’s press release after the jump.
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A Southeast DC man was killed in a shooting early Thursday morning at 18th Street and U Place Southeast, MPD said Thursday night.

They identified the victim as 27-year-old Lonnie Martin Whitted.

MPD’s press release follows.

July 7, 2011

Homicide: 18th Street and U Place, SE

(Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the fatal shooting which occurred at 18th Street and U Place, SE.

On Thursday July 7, 2011, at approximately 12:15 am, units from the Sixth District responded to 18th Street and U Place, SE, to investigate the sounds of gunshots. Upon arriving on the scene, officers located an adult male victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel transported the victim to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
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At a status hearing Thursday defense attorney James Rudasill asked to have Prince Okorie murder defendant Raymond Roseboro removed from DC Jail.

Rudasill said Roseboro was stabbed in jail on June 25, suffering a collapsed lung and requiring four days of hospitalization. City Paper first reported the incident.

Judge Lynn Leibovitz said Roseboro’s placement is an administrative matter and asked Rudasill to take his request to Jail authorities.

AUSA Stephen Gripkey, who is prosecuting the case, said the government is still investigating Okorie’s death and expects an indictment before Sept. 8.

Leibovitz set Sept. 8 as Roseboro’s next court appearance.

MPD is investigating a fatal shooting that took place early Tuesday morning in Northeast DC and killed 22-year-old Kelvin Donnell Brown.

MPD’s press release is below.

July 6, 2011

Homicide: 1600 Block of Lincoln Road, NE

(Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the fatal shooting which occurred in the 1600 block of Lincoln Road, NE.

On Tuesday July 5, 2011, at approximately 12:35 am, DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel were notified that an adult male victim had been shot. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel located the victim and transported the victim to a local hospital. Members from the Fifth District were then dispatched to respond to a local area hospital in regards to the shooting victim. Upon arriving on the scene, officers located an adult male victim being treated by medical personnel suffering from a gunshot wound. The adult male victim later succumbed to his injury and was pronounced dead.
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A preliminary hearing in the Ebony Franklin murder case has been postponed to the end of the month, according to court records checked Wednesday evening.

Rodney McIntyre was due in Judge Lynn Leibovitz’ courtroom Thursday. He is suspected if killing his daughter, Ebony Franklin, in November 2010.

The preliminary hearing has been rescheduled to July 29.

On June 25, Deonte Bryant and Terry Jimenez stood on opposite sides of a fight, each a member of an opposing gang. Facing off, as prosecutors tell it, the two exchanged gunfire. Jimenez was wounded. Bryant ran, the clip from his semi-automatic pistol falling to the ground as he made his escape.

Today the two young men became co-defendants.

Bryant, 20, and Jimenez, 19, are each charged with second-degree murder in the death of Robert Foster Jr, an innocent man struck in the exchange of bullets that prosecutors likened to urban warfare.

Jonathan Franklin, as pictured on an MPD “unsolved homicides” poster

According to charging documents in the case, the argument between Bryant and Jimenez goes back to 2007 when 15-year-old Jonathan Lamont Franklin Jr. was gunned down in a triple shooting near 14th and Ingraham streets NW.

Franklin and Bryant were good friends, both members of the Clifton Terrace University (CTU) gang, and CTU blamed Franklin’s killing on a rival gang, the Hobart Stars.

It wasn’t immediately clear Wednesday evening whether anyone has been prosecuted in Franklin’s case.

Jimenez was a member of the Hobart Stars and had, on at least one occasion, been targeted for murder by CTU, investigators believe.
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A funeral is planned for Thursday for Solomon Reese Jr, who was killed in a shooting in Southeast DC on June 27.

Reese was 71 years old and a resident of Southeast DC.

According to his obituary, he is survived by his wife, three brothers and nine sisters.

For more information about the service, see Reese’s obituary on Legacy.com.

A second man has been arrested on suspcion of killing Robert Foster Jr. following DC’s Caribbean Festival Parade late last month.

Twenty-year-old Deonte J. Bryant is suspected of second degree murder in the case, MPD said late Tuesday night.

Nineteen-year-old Terry Jimenez was arrested and presented with a second-degree murder charge in connection with the same case on June 27.

MPD’s press release is afte the jump.
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