The Hour, in Norwalk, Conn., is reporting that teen Prince Okorie was one of five witnesses whose accounts were used to build the government’s case against Eric Foreman, accused in the murder of Neil Godleski in Petworth Aug. 22.
NBC Washington reported earlier this month that Okorie’s friends may have suspected him of “snitching,” but Godleski’s family told the The Hour in today’s report that Okorie was a witness and that they had discussed the case with D.C. police.Read more
Crime mapping site EveryBlock is reporting a homicide that occurred on Dec. 8 in the 1800 block of Bryant St. NE. According to the site, a person was killed by blunt force trauma at some point on Dec. 8.
Metro Police Spokeswoman Officer Tisha Gant said Metro has no report of a homicide at that location and suggested that Homicide Watch contact EveryBlock regarding their data. We’ve done that and are waiting to hear back from them.
A listing of all reported crimes in the District is available for download here (zip). That spreadsheet shows no record of a homicide on the 1800 block of Bryant St. NE at any point this year.
There were two other deaths reported on Dec. 8: Tawanna Barnes-Copeland and Scott Staten.
Question to readers: Do you use EveryBlock? Do you trust their data? Have you ever found inconsistencies with what you know to have happened (or not happened)?
Tawanna Barnes Copeland, a 41-year-old single mother who was killed in her Southwest D.C. home Dec. 6, will be buried tomorrow (Wednesday) at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suitland-Silver Hill, Md.
A viewing is scheduled for tonight and a funeral service will be held at St. Matthew’s Baptist Church on New Jersey Ave., SE tomorrow, according to Copeland’s obituary.Read more
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A Metro Police spokeswoman said this morning that there is no new information to release in Saturday’s Anacostia shooting, including the identity of the man who was killed.
Homicide Watch received a tip yesterday that that person is Antonio Wade.
Officer Tisha Gant said the public information office had not received any additional information on the case since the original report on Dec. 11 and could not confirm the victim’s identity.
Here’s Metro Police’s original release:
Multiple Shooting Incidents in the Sixth District
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating multiple shootings that led to a fatality.Read more
A D.C. Superior Court Judge ruled Monday that there is probable cause to believe that two physically disabled men shot and killed Gregory Joyner in Southwest D.C. Nov. 15.
Defendants Carl Purvis and Timothy Foreman appeared before Judge Ann Keary today for a preliminary hearing that lasted for more than four hours and brought into question the reliability of all of the four witnesses’ accounts used in the government’s affidavits in support of arrest warrants for the men.Read more
Homicide Watch D.C. received a tip this morning that the deceased victim in a shooting Saturday that left one person dead and four injured is Antonio Wade. Metro Police have not released the victim’s identity. Homicide Watch has a call in to their media line seeking more information and has not had confirmation that the tip we got is correct.
Facebook and Twitter R.I.P posts from D.C. residents are mentioning an Antonio Wade, who died Saturday, according to the posts.
We will update this post as more information becomes available. If you have information to share, please leave a comment or email homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com.
Updated 6:00 p.m.: Charging documents have been added at the bottom of this post.
Charging documents for Raymond Roseboro, accused in the killing of teen Prince Okorie in Petworth Nov. 30, allege that Roseboro was the only one in a group of men armed and he that fired a gun at Okorie multiple times, leaving “several” shell casings at the scene.
Roseboro, a 20-year-old resident of Northwest D.C. known as Raybob, is charged with second degree murder. He was arrested Dec. 10 and is next due in court Dec. 21 for a preliminary hearing.
According to the affidavit in support of an arrest warrant for Roseboro, a witness to Okorie’s death “heard a gunshot, looked, and saw Raybob armed with a gun in [his] hand and [Okorie] on the ground. As [the witness] turned away, it heard additional gunshots.”
The original charging documents in the case will be posted this afternoon to Homicide Watch. The original charging documents are below.
Read more
Update Dec. 18, 2010: Metro press release on the incident is here.
Police found the body of 25-year-old James Campbell, of Bladensburg, Md., at 7:49 p.m. Sunday evening with gunshot wounds, the Washington Post reports.
Campbell’s body was found near the 2900 block of Southern Avenue SE, according to TBD. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The Washington Times makes the connection:
Raymond Roseboro was actively in city custody when police say he killed Prince Okorie, who three weeks before his Nov. 30 killing had himself been placed at a DYRS-licensed shelter.
DYRS sources confirmed Mr. Roseboro’s commitment status but were unavailable to provide additional details. Court records indicate he had been arrested in Maryland in July 2009 for theft under $500 and resisting arrest. He was arrested again in Maryland in August 2009 for carrying a handgun. In each case, prosecutors declined to pursue the charges.
He was charged in April in the District with disorderly conduct and failure to obey an officer. The case was disposed of in April after he paid fines.
This follows the Times ongoing series investigating violence among Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services wards.
