Homicides in December Decrease from November

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D.C. Witness data shows that there were 13 homicides in Washington, DC in December of 2020, nearly a 28 percent decline from the month before.

Twelve of the homicides resulted from shootings with 11 of the victims listed as males in their 20s and 30s, including Timothy Logan, Maurice Johnson, Devonte Wilson, Nathaniel Ford, Anthony Orr, Kelvin Gross, Duane Woolfolk, Vincent Gyamfi, Antoine Pierce, Tyree Brox, and William Johnson. The fatal shootings also included a one-year-old boy, Carmelo Duncan, and a 24-year-old female, Shalonte Pearson.

According to D.C. Witness data, more than half of the month’s homicides occurred in Ward 7.

The police have apprehended four suspects in the homicides.

There have been 205 homicides in DC in 2020 with four of those murders resulting from vehicular homicides, according to D.C. Witness data.

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