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D.C. Witness Staff
- June 5, 2017
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Details Dave Roth will never forget the day his 24-year-old son was killed–but he had to remind those involved in trying the two men charged with his son’s death of the... Read More
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D.C. Witness Staff
- May 18, 2017
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D.C. Witness Staff
- May 12, 2017
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Details The number of traffic-related deaths counted by the DC medical examiner increased from 45 in 2015 to 58 in 2016, all of which were classified as accidents. However, this data... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- May 12, 2017
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Details Of the three homicides counted in April closed with an arrest, all of those cases were domestic in nature. Police counted 6 homicides in April– including one in which a... Read More
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D.C. Witness Staff
- May 12, 2017
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Details Of the 312 homicides since 2015, only 35 people have been sentenced– and not all for murder. From 2015 through March 2017, 46 homicide cases have been closed: nine were... Read More
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D.C. Witness Staff
- April 4, 2017
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Details By the close of March the nation’s capitol tallied 15 homicides, more murders than the past two months combined. The first homicide was on March 3, when 41-year-old Desmond Joseph... Read More
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D.C. Witness Staff
- March 1, 2017
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Details The first homicide of the month came just hours after the sun set on Feb. 1. Police found 25-year-old Tyronn Hodges’ lifeless body in a car on the 900 block... Read More
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D.C. Witness Staff
- January 31, 2017
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Details Recently, the Washington Post made waves by reporting that a D.C. criminal release program is putting dangerous criminals back on the streets to wreak violent mayhem on the city. But while there have been truly tragic incidents, the reality is that those cases are rare-- and even more rare when looking at the most heinous of crimes: murder. Read More
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D.C. Witness Staff
- January 2, 2017
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Details It was a little more than seven hours to midnight on New Year’s Eve when Arrington Lassiter asked a question that brought a group of 9 laughing and playing girls... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- July 22, 2016
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Details In his first remarks as the Republican party’s nominee, presidential candidate Donald Trump pointed to an increase in homicides in the largest cities, including in D.C. as evidence of the instability... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- May 12, 2016
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Details No suspects have been arrested in more than half of the district’s homicides in 2016, according to statistics kept by this website. In 2016, of the 41 victims of... Read More