Chavez Myers, one of nine suspects charged with the 2012 stabbing death of 17-year-old Olijawon Griffin, is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea saying he wasn’t given sufficient time to think about his decision and was persuaded by his defense attorneys to agree to charges he says he didn’t commit.
Defense attorneys for Myers filed the motion to withdraw the guilty plea on Tuesday.
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Alex Cater was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the strangling death of 56-year-old Leroy Studevant.
“The day started out normal and it ended in tragedy for Mr. Studevant and myself,” Cater said about New Year’s Eve 2011, the night Studevant died. “If I could take it back, I would.”
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Police have identified the man shot early Friday morning as 27-year-old Joseph David Fowlkes, of Capitol Heights, Maryland.
Fowlkes was found in the 400 block of Shepherd Street Northwest, with multiple gunshot wounds, at around 2:19 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests were announced in connection with the case.
A press release from MPD is below.
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Judge Ronna Beck sentenced William Faison to 25 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of 19-year-old Jeffrey Covington.
“I don’t think Mr. Faison set out to harm anybody,” Judge Beck said. “But when you go after someone with a firearm in your possession there is always the possibility that someone could get killed, and in fact somebody did get killed.” Read more
A man died after being shot in the chest in Southeast DC early Friday morning, WUSA reports.
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The victim was unconscious when he was taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Right now police have no information to release on possible motive or suspects in the fatal shooting.
For more than nine months a self-induced fast has prevented Albrecht Muth from attending court hearings in a case charging him with the death of his 91-year-old wife, Viola Herms Drath. On Thursday, Judge Russell Canan ordered that the case against Muth will proceed to trial without Muth present.
“Mr. Muth you are knowingly, intelligibly, and voluntarily waiving your right to be present at trial,” Judge Canan said to Muth, who entered his presence by phone. “It is my hope, though, that you begin eating and drinking again to be physically ready for trial.” Read more
It’s been three years, four months and 24 days since Darond Lucas died in the grass outside 1644 W Street Southeast. It’s been two years, six months and 23 days since Joshua Andrews was arrested in connection with Lucas’s death. In that time, four different trial dates were set and four different defense attorneys have represented the case.
But on Tuesday morning, jurors heard opening statements in the case charging Andrews with first-degree murder while armed, assault with intention to kill, and three related weapons charges.
Prosecutors allege that Andrews and Lucas were part of a beef that ended with murder. They believe that, on June 5, 2010, Andrews and another man waited for Lucas outside 1644 W Street Southeast. As Lucas exited the building, Andrews and the other man each shot at Lucas multiple times. Then, after Lucas fell to the ground, Andrews leaned over Lucas’s body and continued to shoot.
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At a preliminary hearing Tuesday an MPD detective testified that an eye witness account, coupled with video footage, led police to arrest 22-year-old Ahmad Robertson- Bey in connection with the June shooting death of Andre Wilson.
Judge Robert E. Morin found probable cause at the hearing, sending the case to the grand jury to investigate. Robertson-Bey was ordered held in connection with the case. He is suspected of first-degree murder.
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A Northeast DC man died Monday after being stabbed in the 1800 block Central Place, Northeast.
Police identified the man as 38-year-old Diallobe McDougald.
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Jeffrey Mills doesn’t deny that he attacked Juan Paredes with a steel barbell on a Saturday afternoon in January 2012, a block from Columbia Heights metro. The beating, he says, was in self-defense.
“Jeffrey Mills had no intention of killing Mr. Paredes,” Andrew Crespo, Mills’ attorney, told the court in opening statements Monday, saying Paredes had threatened to stab Mills. “He was only trying to protect himself.”
Mills, 50, is on trial for first-degree premeditated murder while armed in Paredes’s death. Prosecutors argued Monday that Mills struck Paredes multiple times with a barbell out of anger, causing his death. Read more
