Judge Russell Canan sentenced Ronald Page 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.”
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A man found shot to death in Northeast DC Friday morning has been identified by police as 24-year-old Vernon Davis of Northeast DC.
A press release from MPD is after the jump.
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The death of a young man in Northeast DC is being investigated as a homicide, MPD’s Fifth District Commander Andy Solberg said in a listserv message Friday afternoon.
Wrote Solberg:
This morning at about 8 am, a person discovered the body of a young man who appeared to have been shot next to a building at 1944 3rd St, NE.
The matter is being investigated as a homicide.
If anyone has any information please call 727-9099.
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Judge Herbert Dixon sentenced Antonio Jones to 19 years in prison Friday for the 2011 shooting death of Davon Paul Gray.
“It’s very hard for us to understand why this event occurred,” Judge Dixon said in sentencing Jones.
Police found Gray on October 15, 2011 around 11:00 pm suffering from gunshot wounds on the 2500 block of High Street Southeast. He was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. One week later Jones, 19, was arrested and held on suspicion of first-degree murder in Gray’s death.
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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.
The two men are charged with conspiracy, first-degree murder, assault with intent to kill, and several weapons charges in connection with Coates’ death, who was shot and killed in September 2010 while leaving a friend’s funeral.
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The victim of a quadruple shooting in Northwest DC overnight has been identified as 32-year-old Delonta Hendrix of Northwest.
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.
Three other adult males were also injured. One was shot in the lower body, another in the leg, and a third in the arm, MPD said.
MPD’s press release is after the jump.
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One person was killed in a quadruple shooting in Northwest DC overnight, NBC Washington, Fox5, WUSA and WJLA report.
NBC Washington reports that those involved may have been playing a game of dice when the shooting occurred.
DC Firefighters tweeted last night that all of the injuries were potentially life threatening. Fox5 reported this morning that the surviving victims were in stable condition.
A roundup of video reports is after the jump.
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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.
The verdicts related to Johnnie Harris and Jekwan Smith. It is not clear what the intended verdicts— or charges they corresponded to— were.
Harris and Smith, along with Anthony Hatton and Stanley Moghalu, are alleged to be members of a crew called “21st and Vietnam,” and are charged with the deaths of Tyrell Fogle, Isaiah Sheffield and Steven Moore.
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“justicefortony” and “JusticeforTyrell” left these Comments of the Day, one in support of Anthony Hatton, a co-defendant in the “21st and Vietnam” murder trial, and one in support of Hatton’s alleged victim 17-year-old Tyrell Fogle.
“justicefortony“ wrote:
It’s a shame how the court system allows jury’s to go out and do drugs and think that they have not talked about the case to anyone, it just shows how the government plays with the tax payers dollars prolonging a case that should have been a mistrial last week for Hatton, this just shows you how they choose a jury of his peers, but choose a crack head to judge anybody WHAT A SYSTEM…FREE MR.HATTON.
“JusticeforTyrell” responded, and wrote:
There is enough evidence against him. He is guilty as charge police saw and caught him trying to excape thru a hole in the fence. The police was on his ass the whole time after he shot Tyrell, got the gun that he drop when he came from behind the bushes. Things happen and when his family wakes up and realize noone put a gun in his hands, no one told him to try and be a hero when he was beefing with Tyrell and friends long before he decide to pull that trigger. Justice will be serve for Tyrell and Mr. Hatton is not the only one on trial in this case.
In brief:
Five people were killed in DC this week:
- Antonio Jerome Williams, 23, a Northwest DC man, was fatally shot last Saturday in Columbia Heights. A juvenile male was also injured in the shooting. Earlier in the day, Jason Alexander Murphy, 30, of New Carrollton, Md, was fatally shot in Southeast DC. Police say Murphy was found unconscious behind the 1300 block of Savannah Street by police who were responding to a call for a shooting.
- Matias Molina, 49, was found dead of an apparent stabbing in Rock Creek Park Monday evening. His body was found by a resident near the intersection of Beach Drive and Joyce Road.
- Donald Ray Brown, 28, was fatally shot in Southwest DC Wednesday. A juvenile female was also injured in that shooting.
- Kenneth Guytrell Sweet, 30, was fatally shot early Saturday morning in Southeast DC.
David Jamal Wilson pleaded innocent to charges of second-degree murder while armed and second-degree theft in connection with stabbing death of his roommate, 68-year-old Howard Venable Jr.
Cedric Spicer pleaded innocent to first-degree murder and related weapons charges in connection with the February 2013 death of Joseph Hardin.
A 21-year-old DC man who pleaded guilty in May to participating in a 2009 shooting that killed a 15-year-old bystander was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Judge Karen Howze ruled that there was enough evidence to hold Carlos Parks in connection with the the June shooting death of 25-year-old Tywayne Thompson.
A shootout at a Southeast DC apartment complex that killed community activist Timothy Delonte Dawkins may have had another target. At a preliminary hearing, MPD Detective Michael Murphy testified that video captured by a surveillance camera at the apartment complex showed two men exchanging gunfire and Dawkins falling to the ground. “They seemed to be shooting at each other,” Murphy said. “I don’t know if the decedent was the intended target.”
A jury that has been deliberating for more than two weeks in a DC murder case was excused Thursday morning after the judge in the case decided to remove one juror from the group. It is the third time a juror has been dismissed from service in the case, which began June 25.
Joshua Mebane, one of two teens suspected in the shooting death of a D.C. taxi driver, was arraigned Friday on two counts of murder in connection with the shooting death of 44-year-old Quadar Muhammad. Mebane pleaded innocent to all charges and remains held pending a status hearing October 31.
Muquan Cawthorne pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed, armed robbery and a related weapons offense Friday in connection with the stabbing death of 18-year-old Olijawon Emmanuel Griffin. Prosecutors dropped initial charges of felony murder, conspiracy and assault.
