Here is what we know:
Yesterday, a lone shooter opened fire in Washington Navy Yard’s Building 197, killing twelve people. We know eight of their names, and we expect to learn the remaining identities today. The alleged gunman, Aaron Alexis, was killed by police at the scene.
We are gathering everything we know about the victims, the shooter and what happens next. Our reading list is below, and we’ll add to it throughout the day. Read more
Update: 11:15 a.m.:
Four additional victims of Monday’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard have been identified.
They are:
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Update: 8:44 a.m.: An eighth victim has been identified this morning:
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MPD is reporting the identities of seven of the 12 people killed at Washington Navy Yard Monday.
Those victims are:
Identities of the remaining five victims are being withheld pending notification of their next-of-kin, MPD said.
UPDATE 10:15 p.m.
Mayor Vincent Gray provided details this evening on those killed at Navy Yard Monday, saying that the twelve victims are all between the ages of 46 and 73 years. At least one is confirmed to be a DC resident, MPD Chief Cathy Lanier said.
Seven families have been notified, Gray said.
The shooting shut down much of the area around the Navy Yard for about 14 hours. At about 10:15 p.m. Lanier said the shelter in place order had been lifted.
That order had been maintained while authorities sought a possible second shooter. Lanier said that that search had been based on “multiple witness accounts,” but that investigative efforts were exhausted and the search suspended. She said the deceased gunman, Aaron Alexis, is now believed to have acted alone.
“We now feel comfortable we have the single and sole person responsible for the loss of life,” she said.
In addition to the 12 shooting victims and the deceased shooter, Gray said that eight people were injured, three of whom were shot. Others suffered stress and fall injuries, chest pain, and other injuries. Gray said the wounded MPD officer, Scott Williams, was “doing well and in great spirits.”
Williams is a veteran officer and works in the K-9 unit, Lanier said.
UPDATE 6:15 p.m.
The investigation into today’s deadly shooting at the Navy Yard in Southeast DC will continue throughout the night, at least until the last person being sought is found or cleared of any responsibility.
That’s according to DC Mayor Vincent Gray and MPD Chief Cathy Lanier, speaking at a press conference Monday evening, 10 hours after one or more gunman opened fire at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters killing 12 people.
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In brief:
Delonta Hendrix, 32, of Northwest DC, was killed in a shooting that also injured three others. MPD said in a press release Thursday afternoon that officers responding to the sound of gunshots found Hendrix shot in the 1100 block of 1st Street, NW. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Vernon Davis, 24, or Northeast DC was found shot to death in Northeast DC Friday morning.
After three weeks of deliberating, jurors in the “21st and Vietnam” murder trial announced partial verdicts Wednesday morning on two of the four defendants, but the judge assigned to the case refused to accept their ruling when jurors on one of the verdicts did not appear to be unanimous and the other verdict was read in a confusing manner.
Keir Johnson and Lester Williams turned down a government plea offer Thursday to second-degree murder while armed in connection with the shooting death of 21-year-old Jamal Coates.
Antonio Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for the 2011 shooting death of Davon Paul Gray.
Ronald Page was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of his stepson, 22-year-old Nicholas Ray Satcher. Page addressed the court Friday for over half an hour often breaking down into tears while talking about his life, his dreams, and his family. But when it came to his stepson’s shooting, Page seemed to place blame on his family, and claimed he was being attacked by Satcher and that he shot him in self-defense. “I did not kill Nicholas,” Page said. “The situation was brought on by Nicholas, and his actions killed him.”
Carlos Parks and Troy Robinson were ordered held Friday while a grand jury investigates the case charging the men with killing 25-year-old Tywayne Thompson over a scooter.
Melvin Linkins was ordered released from D.C. jail Friday after Judge Herbert Dixon ruled there was not enough evidence to proceed in the case charging Linkins with the death of 37-year-old D.C. firefighter Marc Emilio Dancy. A spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office said the case remains under investigation.
Decordre Franklin was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of 33-year-old Irving Jones Jr.
Prosecutors dropped their case against Deangelo Garner on Friday in the 2010 shooting death of Antonio Vela.
The Washington Post has a feature this morning on David Lee Robinson, killed in a robbery in January 2012.
Write Post reporter Paul Duggan:
Victims who aren’t perceived as innocent tend to draw scant public notice or sympathy, and the shooting of David Robinson appalled the civic conscience only briefly, owing to the dismal particulars of the crime: He had died in a gunfight after being robbed of his new Nike sneakers.
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Each week, Homicide Watch brings you a list of upcoming hearings in the cases we follow. All hearings are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted. To add an item to the listing, email homicidewatchdc [at] gmail.com. To see scheduled court hearings beyond next week, see our calendar.
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Prosecutors dropped their case against Deangelo Garner on Friday in the 2010 shooting death of Antonio Vela.
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Judge John Ramsey Johnson sentenced Decordre Franklin to 15 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of 33-year-old Irving Jones Jr.
“There was no sense to it,” Judge Johnson said. “It was a completely senseless thing to shoot Irving Jones.”
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Melvin Linkins was ordered released from D.C. jail Friday after Judge Herbert Dixon ruled there was not enough evidence to proceed in the case charging Linkins with the death of 37-year-old D.C. firefighter Marc Emilio Dancy.
A spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office said the case remains under investigation.
Dancy was found dead in the vestibule of an apartment building in the 3000 block of 7th Street Northeast on January 23, 2011, at around 8:00 a.m. An initial autopsy revealed the cause of death was blunt force trauma; the manner of death was ruled as undetermined. But further investigation found that Dancy suffered his injuries during an altercation with another individual.
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A Superior Court judge on Friday found evidence to charge two DC men with killing a 25-year-old man over a scooter.
The suspects, Carlos Parks and Troy Robinson, were ordered held while a grand jury investigates the case.
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