A homeless 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of Glenn M. Bailey, MPD announced this evening.
Damien Pannell was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder Wednesday morning, according to MPD’s release.
Bailey was killed Tuesday afternoon. Court records show Pannell has not yet been presented with the charge.
Read MPD’s release after the jump.
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The D.C. medical examiner’s office has lost its national accreditation, which will make the prosecution of criminal cases — including homicide — more difficult in the District, according to the Washington Examiner.
The paper said defense attorneys will now more easily be able to attack evidence that comes from the office in court. The loss of accreditation could also keep the agency from moving into a new forensics lab set to open next year.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner lost accreditation because the chief lacks board certification, the Examiner reported. The Office conducts autopsies in homicide cases, in addition to a number of other duties.
Glenn M. Bailey, 46, of Northeast, D.C., was fatally stabbed yesterday in the area of 7th and Edgewood Streets NE, according to several reports.
Police responding to a call arrived in the area at 3:40 p.m. and found Bailey breathing, but unconscious, unresponsive and bleeding profusely, according the Washington Post, the Washington Times and WUSA. He was transported to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Cobb said Wednesday that the government is making progress in a case against Ronald Pickett, a Southeast D.C. man accused of killing his fiance, Vanessa McGee in their home in March. Cobb said he had recently received the autopsy report and pictures of the crime scene.
Prosecutors have until early December to get an indictment in the case from the Grand Jury.
Pickett earlier told police that he accidentally shot McGee after an argument. As he was packing his belongings to spend the night elsewhere, he picked up the gun and accidentally discharged it, striking McGee in the shoulder.
Pickett appeared in court wearing a cream- and red-colored shirt and black pants. He was released from jail in March after Judge Fisher did not find probable cause for second-degree murder charges and instead found cause for a charge of manslaughter.
Damon Sams of the District pled guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge today in connection with the shooting of Ashley McRae, 21. McRae, also from the District, was found in the backseat of a car with a single gunshot wound to her head and died at George Washington University Hospital last September.
Sams, 23, had earlier been indicted by a grand jury on second degree murder charges, to which he pled not guilty.
Sams said he accidentally shot McRae when he was trying to put the safety on a .40 caliber semiautomatic pistol, and the government said in a press release that its evidence indicated Sams did not intend to shoot McRae.
According to the release:
Sams already had fired the pistol that night, shortly before killing McRae, and no reasonable person could have thought it would be safe to touch the trigger with a pistol pointed in the direction of another person. Earlier that night, Sams had fired the pistol into the air out of anger at an incident at a club in Maryland, involving unrelated individuals.
Sams also pled guilty to charges of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. He faces up to 45 years in prison, and at least five under mandatory-minimum laws.
The full release from the United States Attorney’s Office is after the jump.
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30-year-old Snead was shot and killed this weekend. Police are still investigating, but have not identified any suspects.
Ethiopian community leaders recently pressed U.S. Attorney Ron Machen on whether the District will file new charges against five DC9 employees in connection with Ali Ahmed Mohammed‘s death, according to The Washington City Paper.
“They didn’t say anything,” says one attendee of Machen and his staff. The community leader prefers to remain anonymous, because he got the impression the U.S. Attorney’s office didn’t want the media to become privy to what went on at the two-hour meeting. He says community leaders were given “the standard party line.”
The meeting took place this Sunday, and also addressed other issues.
The 27-year-old’s death in October 2010 is mired in controversy. According to a police complaint, witnesses said they saw DC9 employees beat Mohammed outside of the bar after he threw bricks into the nightclub’s front window. His death was ruled a homicide and charges were filed against five DC9 employees.
However, those charges were eventually dropped, and the city’s medical examiner said Mohammed wasn’t beaten by the employees. The official cause of death was ruled “excited delirium associated with arrhythmogenic cardiac anomalies, alcohol intoxication and physical exertion with restraint.”
The City Paper reported that community leaders asked Machen if police had provided inaccurate information, in light of the police complaint. An attendee said Machen didn’t answer the question directly, according to the City Paper.
Prosecutors are still investigating Mohammed’s homicide.
An article in The Washington Examiner yesterday compared 2011 and 2010 figures on young homicide victims:
More young people are ending up homicide victims … Of the first 34 people killed in the city in 2011, 13 were 21 and younger. A year ago during the same time, there were 32 slayings, and 10 victims were 21 or younger.
Earlier this month Homicide Watch reported that in the first four months of 2011 a much larger proportion of homicide victims were 21 years old and younger than in the same period last year.
You can find more information about this year’s homicide victims and an interactive timeline of young homicide victims below.
Updated: Police have identified the victim as 30-year-old Junon Tyree Snead of Northeast DC. A press release from MPD is copied below.
The Washington Post reports that a man was slain overnight in the 3700 block of Jay St. NE. The incident was reported at 6 a.m. Saturday, and responding officers found an African American man shot.
Police have no suspects.
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Update: According to the Washington Post police have identified the victim as 32-year-old Ervin Lamont Griffin, of the District. A press release from MPD follows the jump.
A man was shot and killed just before 11:30 p.m. on Friday at the 1200 block of 18th Place NE, ABC 7 reports.
A press release from ANC 5B10 said that a rowdy group assembled at the location, and multiple shots claimed the life of an African American male. ABC 7 said police are searching for a suspect.
The shooting shattered neighbors’ hopes that the area was getting safer, according to the ANC press release. “Many in the ANC 5B10 community believe the M Street homicide is a sign the city is headed for a bloody summer,” the release said.
Read the full press release after the jump.
These comments of the day come from Tyrone, who wrote about Junon Tyree Snead.