Henry Kelly will be remembered today by family and friends at his funeral, one week after he was shot and killed in an alley in Southeast D.C.
From his obituary:
Friends may visit with the family Saturday, March 12 from 9 a.m. until time of service 11 a.m. at the Masters Touch Praise Ministries, 901 Southern Ave., Oxon Hill, MD. Interment Resurrection Cemetery.
MPD has not announced any arrests in the case.
In the days after Selina Knight broke up with her boyfriend, she was subject to verbal and emotional attacks and threats. On March 5 the attacks were over: Knight was dead. Her body was found in her apartment by friends worried that they hadn’t been able to reach her.
That’s according to an arrest warrant signed this week for Knight’s boyfriend, 49 year old Keith Littlepage-El. He was arrested Thursday and on Friday was presented with a first degree murder charge for Knight’s stabbing death.
Authorities believe that Knight’s death was the culmination of at least two weeks of threats and attacks, including two burglaries on her southeast D.C. apartment, one of which, the same day that Knight was killed, D.C. police officers responded to.
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A preliminary hearing on evidence charging Steven Cephas with the death of 20-month-old Dominic Kingsbury Jr. has been postponed to May. Cephas, arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, was due to appear for the hearing Friday morning.
The postponement is the third for the case. The hearing has been rescheduled for May 27.
Deshaun Johnson and Timothy Shade pleaded innocent to second degree murder today at a felony arraignment in D.C. Superior Court.
The two men are accused of assaulting Bernard Lewis in Southeast D.C. on Monday, August 30, 2010. Lewis died the next day at a hospital. Officials said he had suffered blunt force injury to the head. Johnson and Shade were both arrested within a week of the assault.
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Following are scheduled court appearances for murder cases. This information is current as of Thursday, March 10 at 8:30 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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Sharrod Peppers was presented with a first degree murder charge yesterday in the shooting death of Rodney Bean in Northwest D.C. in October 2010.
Peppers, 22, is expected in court again April 8 for a preliminary hearing.
According to charging documents in the case, Peppers was arrested after a witness identified him in a photo line up. That witness told authorities that Peppers and Bean were engaged in a shootout at 14th and Clifton streets NW at about 2 p.m. on Oct. 30. Bean fell to the ground during the shootout, at which point Peppers walked over to Bean and stood over him, firing “several shots” into Bean’s body, the witness told authorities.
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Keith Littlepage, a 49-year-old Northeast D.C. man, is expected to be presented with a first degree murder charge this afternoon in the stabbing death of Selina Knight last Friday.
According to charging documents, Knight was found bloody and lifeless on a loveseat in a Southeast D.C. apartment. Friends had tried to contact Knight several times on March 4, but were not able to reach her. Just before midnight that day they went to her apartment to check on her and found her dead.
Officers found profane graffiti alleging that Knight had “given” Littlepage HIV/AIDS written on walls throughout the apartment.
Littlepage, court documents allege, had been involved in a romantic relationship with Knight, but that the two had broken up.
Littlepage is expected in courtroom 201 sometime after 1 p.m. today for presentment of charges.
WTTG-TV 5 | Mar 10, 2011
Two D.C. cold cases have been solved with the arrest of a 21-year-old man. The unidentified suspect, who is currently in D.C. jail, has been charged with the murders of two D.C. teenagers in two separate shootings in Northeast in 2004 and 2005. 16-year-old Roderick Valentine, also known as “Hot Rod,” was gunned down at 4415 Quarles Street, NE on February 8, 2004. 17-year-old Louis Hastings was killed on September 5, 2005 on 56th and Eads Streets, NE. Police say they solved the cold cases when the 21-year-old man, who was recently arrested for a third homicide, confessed to the killings. Police say the shooter was just 14 years old when he committed the crimes.
To make access to these documents easier, we’ve decided to post them all again in a single entry.
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This comment of the day comes from “nevermind” regarding the prosecution of Damon Sams for the murder of Ashley McRae.
Damon is a good person that made a bad mistake that unfortunately took a beautiful girls life. He is heart broken and we can’t imagine how he feels. She was a lovely girl and its sad. I pray for both of the families for their loss.
Read more about the case here.
♥Shawnte’♥
