For the next six weeks Judge William Jackson will be using courtroom 319 and Judge Thomas Motley will be using courtroom 302. The change is because of Judge’s Motley’s schedule, a court official said.
Homicide Watch will note the change and appropriate courtroom in each Week Ahead.
Judge Motley’s calendar this Friday will be heard in courtroom 302.
In the foyer of Cardozo High School, where classmates of Lucki Pannell met yesterday for a vigil, a MPD poster still hangs on the wall for another teenage girl killed in the neighborhood.
Ebony Franklin, a 17-year-old Prince George’s County girl, was found dead in a trash can in Columbia Heights Nov. 29, 2010. Yesterday, while attending a vigil for Pannell, friends marked what would have been Franklin’s 18th birthday.
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Memorial tag for Lucki Pannell
“You need to put down everything, all this gang violence,” Lucki Pannell’s mother said Monday evening, standing on the front porch where her daughter was shot and killed just over a week ago. “This is my baby.”
Friends, family and community members filled the sidewalk outside the Pannell’s home Monday night for a candlelight vigil with church hymns, memories of the vivacious teen, and pleas to end street violence of the sort that killed Pannell.
The vigil began with a half mile walk from Cardozo High School, where Pannell was a senior.
A memorial service for Pannell is planned for Tuesday morning.
In case of inclement weather, the vigil for Lucki Pannell, scheduled for tonight at 5 p.m. at the Cardozo High Stadium at Euclid and 13th Street NW, will move indoors to Cardozo High’s auditorium.
If you can not attend the vigil but wish to participate, you can send memories and comments to Homicide Watch through Twitter by using #Lucki.
WTOP’s series on the murder of 13-year-old Alonzo Robinson in Trinidad in 2008 wraps up today with part three, and a plaintive cry from Robinson’s mother, Marcella.
“I think I’m officially in hell,” she says.
A jury trial in the case is due to start Tuesday.
wtop.com | Feb 28, 2011
The December 2008 arrests of Antonio McAllister and the Benton brothers allowed Lanier to bring some sense of closure to the Alonzo Robinson murder — a homicide overshadowed by controversial police checkpoints and now forgotten by many. “I promised the Trinidad community months ago that I would not stop until those responsible for Alonzo’s murder were brought to justice,” Lanier said when announcing the arrests of McAllister and Joshua Benton. For Marcella Robinson, though, there has been no closure. She cannot sleep. Loud noises scare her. Alcohol is an escape. She questions — over and over — what she could have done to save her young son’s life. Something. Anything. “It’s horrible,” she says. “I think I’m officially in hell.”
In Brief:
A shooting Friday afternoon in the 2300 Block of Good Hope Road in Southeast D.C. killed a 53 yeear old D.C. man whom police identified tonight as Anthony Lynn Willford.
February 25, 2011
HOMICIDE: 2300 Block of Good Hope Road, SE
( Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a fatal shooting which occurred in the 2300 block of Good Hope Road, SE.
On Friday, February 25, 2011, at approximately 12:00 pm, units from the Sixth District responded to the 2300 block of Good Hope Road, SE, to investigate the report of a shooting. Upon their arrival, officers located a victim inside of the location suffering from gunshot wounds. Personnel from DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded and transported the victim to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The decedent has been identified as 53-year-old Anthony Lynn Willford of Southeast, DC.
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Update: Judge Motley’s calendar for the next six weeks will be heard in courtroom 302, not 319. For cases appearing before Judge Motley, go to courtroom 302.
Following are scheduled court appearances for murder cases. This information is current as of Friday, Feb. 25 at 12:30 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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Part two of WTOP’s four part series: Tragedy in Trinidad is online now; the first part debuted yesterday.
Here’s an excerpt; read the whole report on WTOP.com.
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Columbia Heights homicide victim Lucki Pannell will be remembered next week with a vigil at her high school and a memorial service at Greater First Baptist Church.
Homicide Watch reader RBerger sent the following dates in:
Vigil: Monday (02.28) @ 5pm in the Cardozo High Stadium (Euclid and 13th Street)
Viewing: Tuesday (03.01) 930-11am Greater First Baptist Church (Fairmont and 13th Street)
Memorial: Tuesday (03.01) 11-12noon Greater First Baptist Church (Fairmont and 13th Street)
Homicide Watch has confirmed the viewing and memorial at Greater First Baptist Church and has a call in to Cardozo to confirm the vigil. We’ll keep you posted.
