UPDATED: WUSA is reporting that the second victim initially reported as surviving this shooting has died.
TBD is confirming that a person injured in a double shooting on Yuma Street SE has died of their injuries.
The shooting is one of five violent attacks in D.C. late Wednesday night and is the second homicide. An earlier shooting in Petworth killed a man.
Less than two hours before the fatal shooting on Yuma Street, another double shooting was reported a half mile away on Wahler Pl SE. The status of those victims is unknown.
UPDATE: MPD Commander Kimberly Chisley-Missouri said this afternoon that there is “no information” at this time that a fatal shooting in Petworth last night was gang or crew related.
Read her message after the jump.
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Joshua Andrews, a Southeast D.C., man was arrested today in connection with the shooting of Darond Lucas, 17, last June. Andrews, 19, is being held on suspicion of first-degree-murder while armed.
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From the U.S. Attorney’s Office:
District Man Convicted of Stabbing Neighbor to Death- Attack Took Place While Defendant Was High on PCP
WASHINGTON - Troy Richardson, 40, of Washington, D.C., was convicted today of voluntary manslaughter while armed and carrying a dangerous weapon in the 2009 killing of his neighbor, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
The verdict followed a trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The Honorable Gerald I. Fisher, who presided at trial, scheduled sentencing for June 16, 2011.
The evidence at trial revealed that on May 17, 2009, the victim, 34-year-old Tyrone Wheaten, went to his mother’s apartment in the 2400 block of Elvans Road SE for Sunday dinner, as he did every week. He brought along his long-term girlfriend and two young sons. At about 6 p.m., he encountered Richardson, who had been a neighbor for over 15 years.
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MPD has released the following information about Kirk Garnes, found dead in Lamond-Rigs Saturday morning.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide that occurred in the 5500 block of 3rd Street, NE.
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washingtonexaminer.com | Apr 4, 2011
Homicides in the Washington region jumped 17 percent in the first three months of the year, fueled by a spate of killings in Prince George’s County. Sixty-two people were killed in the first quarter of 2011 compared with 53 in 2010, highlighted by several high-profile slayings including a homicide at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda on New Year’s Day, the beating death of a yoga shop employee last month and the shooting death of a University of Maryland student
A felony arraignment in the first-degree murder case of a 20-month-old boy has been postponed to May 27.
Steven Cephas was due to be arraigned Tuesday. He has not yet had a preliminary hearing.
According to court records, Cephas will return to court May 27 at 9:30 a.m. instead for arraignment and a preliminary hearing. Judge William Jackson will hear the case.
This guest column comes from Ricardo Vela, whose 22-year-old son Antonio Valdez Vela was killed in a shooting Aug. 30 in the 4400 block of F Street, SE.
DeAngelo Jose Garner, a 26-year-old District Heights man, is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the case but has not been indicted. Garner is due to appear in court Wednesday for a felony status hearing. As a note, guest columns are published unedited.
Homicide victim Antonio “AJ” Vela with his son Kyiree in a submitted photo
We call him AJ. AJ was 22 when he was murdered. He was a good son.
He was attending Southern Maryland Community College. This would have been his second year. After he received his AA in Criminal Justice, his plans was to join the DC police department. His goal was to join the department and once settle in his job, he would continue his education to get his bachelor degree. Once he got that he want to becomes a member of the Crime Scene Investigation teams. He like helping people. He had so many of his friend murdered, he want to be able to help solved crimes and ensure that everyone that was involved in the crime get the punishment that they deserve.
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Washington Times | Apr 3, 2011
After he admitted shooting and killing a 24-year-old D.C. man, Dominic Samuels received a sentence of seven years in prison.
After his conviction for a $600, half-ounce cocaine deal, Antwaun Ball got a sentence of 18 years in prison.
Samuels and Ball were sentenced in the same federal courthouse in Washington. They stood before the same judge. They were co-defendants in the same trial. But their vastly different punishments provide a stark reminder of just how much discretion federal judges have at sentencing. The outcomes also shed light on a controversial but perfectly legal practice that lets judges mete out tougher sentences based on conduct that jurors rejected at trial.
A 17-year-old suspected in the November 2010 shooting death of a Seat Pleasant woman in Southeast D.C., has been charged as an adult in the case.
According to court documents, Kevin Benbow was presented with the first-degree murder charge Saturday and ordered held pending a preliminary hearing in the case.
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