Judge Grants Continuance in Homicide Case Due to Defendant’s COVID Quarantine 

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DC Superior Court Judge Robert Okun granted on Oct. 14 a continuance for a sentencing for parties involved in a homicide case due to the defendant being quarantined at the DC Jail. 

Rasheed Young, 44, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder while armed. Young shot 26-year-old Cedric Rogers on June 11, 1996, on the 300 block of Franklin Street, NE. He also shot 39-year-old Ronald William Richardson, Jr. on May 18, 2018, on the 2300 block of 4th Street, NE.

The sentencing hearing has been continued for Oct. 28.