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By D.C. Witness Staff - December 4, 2018
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Details Homicides in the District of Columbia decreased in November by almost half the number of murders in October. According to D.C. Witness data, there were 21 homicides in October compared to... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - November 27, 2018
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Details Throughout the last three months, the District has seen an uptick in teenage homicide victims. According to D.C. Witness data, during the month of August there were no teenage homicides,... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - November 15, 2018
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Details Washington, DC does not have any federal prisons. Instead, felons of crimes in the District of Columbia are transferred to other states to carry out their sentences. The following article... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - November 2, 2018
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Details An increase in traffic fatalities made the number of deaths in October rise slightly above the number of deaths in September. There was also an increase of homicides on Capitol... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - October 25, 2018
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Details                 A jury found Daron Wint guilty Oct. 25 of murdering a family of three and their housekeeper in Northwest DC in 2015.... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - October 18, 2018
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Details The District of Columbia saw an uptick in homicides throughout the month of September. As of Oct. 16, the Metropolitan Police Department has made arrests in nearly half of the... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - October 10, 2018
Court | Featured | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details Hours after counsel delivered closing arguments, a jury found a murder defendant guilty of first-degree murder while armed. Babajide Pittman killed Anthony Young on the 600 block of L Street,... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - October 2, 2018
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Details August reflected a low number of homicides in the District of Columbia, suggesting that maybe the Metropolitan Police Department finally initiated a homicide prevention solution that worked. But, the sense... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - September 12, 2018
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Details Throughout the month of August, the District of Columbia endured eight homicides, nearly a 60 percent decrease from July. However, there have been no  arrests or persons of interest in connection... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - September 4, 2018
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Details Even though homicides across the District are down, a different ward tops the list as Washington, DC’s leading area of homicides. Ward 7 accounts for approximately 50 percent of all... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - August 29, 2018
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Details As of Aug. 27, most homicides in the District of Columbia are gun related, according to D.C. Witness data.  The data shows there were 104 homicides so far this year,... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - August 15, 2018
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Details There were 19 homicides in the month of July, the majority of which were gun related deaths - a four year trend. Read More