washingtonpost.com | Apr 17, 2011
Whatever the Promised Land was that Martin Luther King Jr. saw before his assassination 43 years ago this month, those parts of the city where Jackson and hundreds of his contemporaries lived and died were definitely not it.
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The Washington Post reports this morning that a woman was killed in Anacostia Park last night and a message from MPD reports that there was a reported stabbing victim found there at that same time.
According to the Post, the woman was found dead and no arrests have been made in the case.
In brief:
Following are scheduled court appearances for murder cases. This information is current as of Thursday, April 15 at 12 p.m. and will be re-verified throughout the week. 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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Harry Jaffe thinks so. In a column this week in the Washington Examiner he writes:
Robberies are up. Burglaries are on the rise. Car theft is in vogue. Summer in Washington brings heat and humidity that makes everyone a bit more crazy. Crime will spike. Trust me… It’s not that there are fewer guns, just fewer cops to find and recover the ones on the street — which might have been used to kill the six victims gunned down last week.
What do you think?
washingtonpost.com | Apr 14, 2011
A man in a wheelchair was seriously wounded Thursday in a stabbing outside a Southeast Washington church shortly after the funeral of a homicide victim, police said.
Although the stabbing victim remained alive in a hospital Thursday afternoon, police said, his wounds were so grave that homicide detectives took over the investigation
Raheem Jackson’s favorite quote came from Mohandas Gandhi, who said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.”
Friends and family are saying that that sentiment was how Jackson lived his life: applying himself passionately to his studies (he was a straight-A student with a $50,000 college scholarship already in the bank) to sports (he was a starting guard on his school’s varsity basketball team and an avid Georgetown Hoyas fan) to community service (when a new teacher expressed fear of walking to a nearby Metro stop, Jackson walked the teacher there himself).
“He was a good kid,” his cousin, Melissa Green Peterson said Thursday evening at a vigil in memory of Jackson. He was shot to death April 7 in the 1300 block of Congress Street SE.
Peterson said the family is anxious for police to find the person or people responsible for Jackson’s death, and urged anyone who may have information, to call police.
“The way that he was murdered, people might be afraid to (speak up),” she said. “But if you loved him or knew him even a little, even if it’s just the smallest thing, call or write a letter or send a note,” she said.
More than 300 people, mostly students from HD Woodson High School, where Jackson was an 11th grader, gathered for that vigil, which at times more closely resembled a spirit assembly than a memorial service.
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wtop.com | Apr 13, 2011
A D.C. Superior Court judge has granted a mistrial for a suspect charged in the 2008 murder of 13-year-old Alonzo Robinson in the Trinidad neighborhood.
Antonio McAllister, 20, faced 26 charges including first-degree murder while armed and assault with intent to kill while armed following a series of shootings in July of 2008 that claimed the life of Robinson and wounded several others.
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Last Wednesday night, Shonell “Chris” Correia was sitting on the couch in his living room talking with his mother and checking the caller ID numbers on the house phone. Twenty minutes later he was dead.
According to details in the criminal complaint against James Speaks, accused of second-degree murder in Correia’s death, after checking the caller ID the night of April 6, Corriea,
walked into the kitchen and told his mother that he was going to take the trash out. [He] left the kitchen door open and went out into the backyard. After a few minutes [his] mother heard two gunshots. [Corriea] was found in the backyard unconscious suffering from gunshot wounds.
Speaks was identified by the sole witness to the homicide as the shooter. The witness told police that Corriea and a man known as “Rico” were having a verbal argument when Speaks pulled out a silver or gray handgun and shot Corriea, the witness said.
Speaks, 22, is employed, makes $600 a month and is the father of two children, according to paperwork determining his eligibility for public defender services.
Charging documents are after the jump.
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El Sauce, the restaurant/bar were Jose Hernandez-Romero was killed on March 27 is now closed, reports D.C. photographer Llyod Wolf on his blog Washington’s Other Monuments.
I’ll try to get by there this week to confirm.
