Judge Continues Status Hearing for Potential Plea Deal

A DC Superior Court Judge continued a status hearing for counsel to discuss a potential plea negotiation. Bernard Coleman III, 26, is charged with first-degree murder while armed, burglary, robbery while armed, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence and unlawful possession of a firearm with a prior crime of violence for allegedly shooting his father, Bernard Coleman Jr., 43. The shooting occurred on the 4000 block of Cole Boulevard on March 17, 2017. Judge Craig Iscoe continued the hearing by one day after Coleman’s defense attorney, Dominique Winters, said that the parties were very close to a global plea deal and needed to work out a few details. The hearing is scheduled to continue on Dec. 17.