When Columbia Heights teen Lucki Pannell was killed while “chillin” on her front porch in February, Terry Jimenez was there. This weekend, when Robert Foster was killed near the Caribbean Festival parade route, Terry Jimenez was there.
DC Councilman Jim Graham says Jimenez, a 19-year-old Northwest DC man and a known gang member, was the intended target in both shootings.
“Two innocent people are dead and again we find this person in the middle of it and we have reason to believe he is the actual target,” Graham said.
9NEWSNOW first reported the connection between Saturday’s dramatic shooting that killed Foster and injured three others, including Jimenez, and the February drive-by that killed Pannell. 9NEWSNOW also identified Jimenez. WJLA and WAMU have also reported the connection, but have not identified the man Graham says connects the cases.
“My information would indicate that people would want him dead,” Graham told 9NEWSNOW, adding that Jimenez had been sent out of state and was supposed to be in New York.
“What was he doing in the District of Columbia because under CSOSA supervision, he was sent out of state. How was he released back into D.C. and under what restrictions did he come back?”
The case against him centers on his defense of Delante White, who was indicted on federal drug trafficking charges in 2008. Federal prosecutors allege that after White hired Daum, the lawyer — and two investigators, Daaiyah Pasha and her daughter, Iman, who have also been charged in the Daum case — hatched a plan to trick a jury into thinking that the drugs seized in a police raid of White’s apartment weren’t his.
The case could have implications for attorneys and high-profile clients, or those charged with serious crimes, Alexander reports.
MPD identified the victim of a fatal shooting in the aftermath of DC’s Caribbean Festival Saturday as 43 year old Robert Foster.
MPD’s press release is below.
June 26, 2011
Homicide: 700 Block of Gresham Place, NW
(Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a fatal shooting which occurred in the 700 block of Gresham Place, NW.
On Saturday, June 25, 2011, at approximately 5:03 pm, units from the Third District responded to a call for the sounds of gunshots. Upon arrival, they located four victims, three in the 700 block of Gresham Place, NW and one in the 700 block of Columbia Road, NW. All four victims were transported by DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel to local hospitals where one of the victims succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
The decedent is identified as 43 year-old Robert Foster Jr. of Northwest, Washington, DC. Read more
It appeared that the parade had largely passed when the gunfire erupted, but many people had remained near the route. Witnesses said the sound sent people fleeing down Gresham Place and away from Georgia.
Assistant D.C. Police Chief Diane Groomes said the shooting had no connection to the festival or the university. Investigators think it stemmed from a neighborhood issue, she said.
In addition to the one man who was killed, three others were wounded and police believe that there were at least two gunman, NBC Washington reports.
A YouTube user, jjulesj123, posted video from the shooting showing two victims injured and the crowds gathered around them. Video of an injured man, who Jules believes died following the shooting, is here. Video of an injured woman, who has survived, is here. Warning that these videos may be upsetting.
If you were at the festival or can tell us anything more about the victims, email HomicideWatchDC [AT] Gmail [DOT] com or leave a comment below.
An early morning shooting in Northeast DC killed a man Saturday, police said Saturday evening.
The victim was identified as Bobby Lee Jackson of Northwest DC. He was found with a gunshot wound in the 5900 block of Eads Street, NE shortly after 1:30 Saturday morning.
Blunt force trauma injuries killed 61 year-old Glenn Scarborough, who was found injured inside his Northeast DC home on Levis Street Sunday. While the case was initially reported as a stabbing, city data indicates that Scarborough’s injuries were from blunt force trauma.
Charles Hicks, 53, was stabbed to death in the 2600 block of Douglass road, SE.
Eric Foreman was indicted on two counts of first degree murder, one count of robbery while armed, and six firearms crimes for crimes surrounding the death of Catholic University grad student Neil Godleski. Foreman is expected to stand trial in February.
Aaron Adams, the man suspected of killing Garrett White outside a Georgia Ave bar over Memorial Day weekend, was released to a halfway house to await an indictment in the case.
The mother of Brishell Jones, one of 6 young people killed in a drive-by shooting on South Capitol Street in 2010, has filed a lawsuit against many city agencies including the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the D.C Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department.
In other news, while gun violence is the predominate cause of homicide in DC, a Homicide Watch study concludes that since May the rate of homicides by stabbing has spiked to one in three. That’s compared to 1 in 11 for Jan-April.
Damien Pannell was ordered held today on suspicion of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Glenn Bailey in an Edgewood parking lot.
Bailey, a 46-year-old man, was stabbed four times in a mid-Tuesday afternoon fight.
Prosecutors believe that Bailey and a woman were fighting in the parking lot after the woman got mad at Bailey for jumping in front of other customers in line at a liquor store. The two threw punches at each other before Pannell pushed the woman, his girlfriend, aside and stabbed Bailey.
At a preliminary hearing Friday afternoon, Pannell’s defense attorney, Madalyn Harvey, told Judge Thomas Motley Pannell could have had good reason to get involved in the fight.
“This is a young man going to the defense of his girlfriend who was being punched by a man larger than her,” Harvey said.
Still, Motley ruled that probable cause that Pannell is responsible for second-degree murder exists and ordered that he be held at least until a status hearing in the case on Nov. 8.
Each Friday, Homicide Watch brings you a tickler of which murder cases are coming up in the DC courts. Highlights this week are a preliminary hearing in the shooting death of Ralph Thomas outside of McKinley Tech High School in early June and Zachary Sims arraignment on a charge of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Jamal Bell. With four murder cases on Judge Jackson’s calendar on Friday, it looks like a busy week in court.
This information is current as of Thursday June 23 at 1:30 p.m. 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.
View the calendar tickler after the jump. Read more
This comment of the day comes from Asia, who wrote:
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The Washington Times is reporting that the mother of Brishell Jones, one of 6 young people killed in a drive-by shooting on South Capitol Street in 2010, has filed a lawsuit against many city agencies including the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the D.C Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department.
Nardyne Jeffries says the fatal shooting was the result of “gross negligence, racial discrimination and indifference” by the agencies.
One of the victims killed in the same shooting that claimed Brishell’s life, 18-year-old Devaughn Boyd, also was under the care of DYRS, which continues to struggle with guard beatings and youth escapes from custody at the New Beginnings Youth Development Center in Laurel.
An internal report by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General (OAG), which also is named in the lawsuit, concluded last year that DYRS could have prevented Carter’s release from jail, where he was serving time for adult convictions. The report found DYRS lacking in monitoring its juvenile wards and said its “procedures and practices favor release to the community without regard to the youth’s needs, prior criminal acts or potential for re-offending.”
The lawsuit accuses the MPD and Chief of Police Cathy Lanier of failing to protect the community from “anticipated and expected” retaliatory violence after homicides in a manner that constitutes racial discrimination against the predominantly black residents of Wards 7 and 8.
It also targets Fire and EMS for an alleged failure to adequately transport Brishell to the nearest hospital and charges that the ambulance operators “chose to run personal errands” before dispatching to the scene when they first received the emergency call.
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