WUSA-TV 9 | Mar 23, 2011
A person-of-interest in the murder of a 17-year-old girl last November is accusing the Metropolitan Police Department of harassment. But police call the claim ludicrous, especially since the man making the accusations is the victim’s father. “The way my baby was found in the trash, it’s unacceptable,” said Rodney McIntyre, the father of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin who’s body was found in a District dumpster last November. “What I want to know as her father, what really took place with my child?”
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washingtonblade.com | Mar 23, 2011
A D.C. Superior Court jury on Tuesday found District resident Justin L. Navarro, 25, guilty of first-degree murder while armed for stabbing a gay man at least 15 times in the back seconds after police said he referred to the victim as a “faggot.”
But the jury declined a request by prosecutors that it designate the Nov. 6, 2009 murder of District resident Kevin Massey, 31, as an anti-gay hate crime.
“The U.S. Attorney’s office had charged the defendant with committing this murder because of Mr. Massey’s sexual orientation, but the jury did not make that finding beyond a reasonable doubt,” the office said in a statement.
This comment of the day comes from Family Friend, who wrote in about Ebony Mack.
I will miss Ebony full of laughter and smiles. This is a very senseless and tragic death for a young woman and a great lost for her two kids. Just gone to soon. Ebony was very kind and generous human being. Hopefully this homicide will not remain in the “cold case files.”
Jordan Howe’s shooting death on March 22, 2010 over a missing bracelet sparked a spree of violence that left a total of four people dead and injured six more. The vigil Tuesday where Howe was killed marked the start of a week of remembrance for all the victims: Brishell Jones, 16; DaVaughn Boyd, 18; William Jones III, 19; and Tavon Nelson, 17. They were killed March 30, 2010 following Howe’s funeral.
See a photo slideshow from the vigil on Flickr.
Photos by Dallas Lillich
Norman Williams reflects on Jordan Howe's (his son's) death at a vigil Tuesday
To the young people gathered in a small apartment building parking lot off Alabama Avenue Tuesday night, Norman Williams pleaded: “Starting from now, today, we’re going to work together to do a little better,” he said.
For Williams, the moment was an important one: on the day he marked the first anniversary of his son’s killing he wanted young people to hear his voice.
“My son is gone in a senseless killing; I’m here to save someone’s life,” he said.
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UPDATED: A fifteen-year-old girl told police she thought a 9mm handgun was not loaded when she pointed it at Gary Gordon, pulled the trigger, and shot him, a MPD detective said today at the girl’s detention hearing.
D.C. Superior Court rules prohibit Homicide Watch from identifying the teen involved because she is a juvenile.
“She said she removed the magazine and was playing with the gun,” the testifying detective, Officer John Bevilacqua, said. “She pointed it at the decedent, pulled the trigger, and shot him.”
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According to friends and family on Facebook and Twitter tonight, Gary Gordon, an 18-year-old Southeast D.C. man killed Sunday afternoon, was an Anacostia High School student and basketball player.
They remembered him online. (Memories after the jump.)
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Gary Gordon, an 18-year-old D.C. man, was shot and killed in the block of Southeast D.C. where he lived Sunday afternoon. An unidentified 15-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in the case.
According to MPD:
March 20, 2011
Arrest Made in Homicide in the 2600 block of Stanton Rd. SE
( Washington, DC) — Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch announced a suspect has been arrested in the homicide in the 2600 block of Stanton Road, SE.
On Sunday, March 20, 2011, at approximately 2 p.m. members of the Seventh District responded to a residence in the 2600 block of Stanton Road, SE for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival on the scene they found a male victim inside suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.
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From the U.S. Attorney’s Office
District Man Pleads Guilty to Two Murders -One Victim Slain on 17th Birthday, Other While With His Family -
WASHINGTON - Cornell Scrivner, 20, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to two counts of second degree murder while armed in two slayings that took place in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
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