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By D.C. Witness Staff - February 26, 2018
Court | Featured | Homicides | Suspects |

Details A four-week long homicide trial for three homicides in 1991 ended on Feb. 16 when a jury found Benito Valdez guilty of multiple counts of first-degree murder while armed. The... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - February 23, 2018
Court | Featured | Homicides | Suspects |

Details Judge Judith Bartnoff sentenced Wandell Roy to 27 years in prison for fatally shooting Victor Williams while he was walking his two dogs on the Anacostia River Trail in July... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - February 16, 2018
Court | Featured | Homicides | Suspects |

Details On the third day of a murder trial, the prosecution called Feb. 15 two eyewitnesses to give their stories of a series of events during and after an alleged homicide... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - November 1, 2017
Featured | Infographics |

Details The chart below shows the causes of death in the 363 homicides in DC between 2015-17. Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - October 26, 2017
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Details The graph below shows the 81 homicide cases in DC between 2015-17 that were resolved. The average times between death to arrest was 53 days and that time of arrest... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - October 25, 2017
Featured | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details September 2017 saw the number of homicides in DC reduced by half from the year before – from 20 in 2016 to 10 this year. There have been arrests in... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - October 1, 2017
Court | Featured | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details There were 12 homicides in October 2017 and nine cases were resolved. Here is our monthly wrap-up of cases covered in October. Homicides Of the 12 homicides, ten of them... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - August 24, 2017
Court | Featured | Homicides |

Details There were twelve homicides in the month of July, and three cases were put to rest with a guilty verdict or plea. Though there were the same number of homicides... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - August 23, 2017
Court | Featured | Homicides |

Details In the two-and-a-half years that D.C. Witness has been tracking homicides, there have only been five jury trials resulting in a guilty verdict. This summer saw a lot of cases... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - August 22, 2017
Featured | Homicides | Victims |

Details It’s Jamese Harvey’s job to save lives. But when it came to the life of her fiance, she spent minutes that felt like hours trying to save him, but couldn’t.... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - July 26, 2017
Court | Featured | Homicides |

Details The month of June tallied eight homicides and four cases were put to rest as suspects were either found guilty or pleaded guilty. June of 2016 saw a total of nine homicides,... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - July 25, 2017
Featured | Homicides | Victims |

Details The stories Queen Afi Gaston shares while touring high schools to talk about the plague of domestic violence have always been personal. She was a victim, and an abuser herself.... Read More