Police say 36-year-old Joseph Kenneth Belle was fatally shot last Friday.
Belle, of Southeast, was found unconscious and unresponsive by police responding to a report of a shooting at around 6:10 p.m. last Friday. Belle died from his injuries where he was found in the 1300 block of Morris Road, SE.
Police are investigating the death of 36-year-old Van Joyner, who was killed in a shooting on Halloween.
According to police, Joyner was found with gunshot wounds at around 2:45 a.m. on Halloween in the 1000 block of Savannah Street, SE.
Joyner was taken to the hospital and died from his injuries the following day, on November 1.
Joyner’s was not the only homicide in the very early hours of Halloween. Police are also investigating the death of Victor Drummings who was found dead on the other side of town at around 3:15 a.m. the same morning.
Lamar Young, a man charged with fatally stabbing Bobby Ellis in an argument over subs during a basketball game was denied bail in his first appearance for the charge on Tuesday.
Young was arrested on Monday and charged with second-degree murder while armed for Ellis’ death in August.
According to the warrant for Young’s arrest, a witness told police Ellis was angry about being substituted out of a basketball game, played on a court at Ronald H. Brown Middle School in Northeast. According to the warrant, a witness heard Young tell Ellis “I got guns,” to which Ellis replied “I got guns too.” Young then pulled a knife out of his shorts while Ellis stood still and Young held him by the neck and stabbed him once in the left side of his stomach. Ellis, according to the warrant, backed up from Young and ran to the parking lot. He collapsed in the parking lot and got up once more before he fell by a parked vehicle and collapsed, which is where he was later found by police.
Ellis was pronounced dead a a hospital about an hour after police responded to the call for an unconscious male in the parking lot. According to an autopsy, Ellis died from the stab wound.
Two witnesses identified Young as the stabber, according to the warrant.
Young’s next court date is December 18.
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Police investigating two bodies found in a Capitol Hill home have determined the cause of deaths to be a murder-suicide.
According to police, 36-year-old Desiree Cooper was shot and killed by John Robinson, 37, before he killed himself in a home they shared. Multiple news reports say Robinson and Cooper were in a relationship.
Police found the two bodies in the 200 block of Tennessee Avenue, NE, on Monday afternoon. Both died from gunshot wounds, according to the Office of the Medical Examiner.
A 19-year-old was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon, according to police.
Tyree Banks, of Southeast, was found with gunshot wounds at around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday by police responding to the sounds of gunshots in the 5000 block of Benning Road. Banks was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries.
Police are asking for the public’s health in find four people they believe are connected to the homicide of 41-year-old Victor Drummings.
Drummings was found unconscious and unresponsive at around 3:15 Halloween morning.
Police on Tuesday circulated a video showing four people of interest wanted in his homicide.
Drummings, of Upper Marlboro, was found on the 1600 block of New York Ave, NE.
Police on Monday arrested 26-year-old John David Allen for the alleged murder of Cortez Clark inside of Allen’s apartment in October.
Allen, charged with second-degree murder while armed was held without bail when presented in court Tuesday, according to court documents.
A witness alleges Clark was assaulted inside of Allen’s apartment, before Allen and others led Clark to a vacant apartment and continued to beat him in the process. The witness said Allen repeatedly beat Clark while he was brought down the stairs and into the other apartment, and a female spit on Allen. In addition to the female and Allen, there were allegedly two other males who helped to carry Clark’s body. After he was dead, Clark was stripped of his clothes, keys and wallet before Allen began cleaning the hallway and apartment, the witness aid.
An autopsy report included in charging documents said Clark was stabbed multiple times, including stabs to his torso and buttocks. Clark also suffered injuries to his head and face, and the cause of death was determined to be sharp force injuries and blunt force trauma.
In an interview with police, Allen said he was a lookout when the aforementioned female and another male lured Clark to Allen’s apartment with the intention to rob him. Allen told police the other male and females beat Clark to death.
Police discovered Clark’s body inside the vacant apartment at 331 Parkland Place, SE on October 13. According to charging documents, Clark was killed on the night of October 10.
Allen’s next court date was set for December 11.
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Police arrested Lamar Young on Monday for murder in the stabbing death of Bobby Ellis in August.
Young, who had been identified by police as a suspect earlier this month, was arrested and charged with second degree murder while armed.
According to police, Ellis, of Southeast, was found with stab wounds on the 4800 block of Meade Street, NE, on August 23. Ellis was taken to a hospital and died.
Young was due to be presented in Superior Court Tuesday afternoon.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of Leon Reid Jr., who was found with gunshot wounds Thursday.
Reid, 35, was found in the 5300 block of Dix Street, NE, by police responding to a call of a shooting. Reid was found and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police are investigating the death of 20-year-old Percy Williams in a shooting early Monday morning.
Police say Williams, a resident of Northeast was found with gunshot wounds at around 2 a.m. Monday in the 1900 block of Capitol Ave, NE.
Williams was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police have made an arrest in a July shooting that left one man dead.
Police on Monday arrested 24-year-old Sean Green and charged him with first-degree murder while armed for the alleged homicide of Derrick Black.
Black, 24, was found at around 9:30 p.m. on July 30 on the 3300 block of Georgia Ave, NW. He was taken to the hospital and died.
A man accused of fatally stabbing another during a fight over a woman was offered a plea deal on Friday, where he would face up to six-and-a-half year in prison.
Tyree Morgan was charged with second-degree murder for stabbing Antoine Jackson inside Morgan’s apartment on July 22.
Jackson was admitted to the hospital on July 22, and died on July 30. According to an autopsy included in charging documents, Jackson died from multiple sharp force injuries in his torso.
According to police, Morgan turned himself into police five hours after the stabbing. He was then charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, but the charges were upgraded a week later when Jackson died from his injuries.
In D.C. Superior Court on Friday, prosecutors made public a plea deal that would recommend a sentence of four years to six-and-a-half years if Morgan pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
According to the police documents, Morgan and Jackson were fighting when Morgan stabbed Jackson multiple times with a knife. According to a witness on the phone during the fight Jackson asked Morgan “Why you texting my girl,” referring to the woman who was still on the line. Jackson told the woman that Morgan stabbed him and he was dying. The victim also told police Morgan stabbed him during the argument.
Morgan, who has been out on bail and living in a halfway house, was also granted permission to work as part of his release with a program administered by the halfway house on Friday.
Further conversation about the plea offer was continued to November 3 at 9:30.
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Police are investigating a stabbing that left one man dead and another injured.
Police found two men with stab wounds on the 200 block of K Street, NW at around 1 a.m. Friday. Both were taken to the hospital, where 24-year-old Joel David Midgett died from his injuries. According to police the second victim sustained non-life threatening injuries.
Tavon Maurice Patterson was fatally shot in Southeast Thursday night.
According to police, the 23-year-old was found with gunshot wounds on the 3200 block of 15th Place, SE at around 7:40 p.m. Thursday.
Patterson was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries.
Donta Curtis McNeil, charged with murder in the shooting death of Antonio Dean, made his first court appearance Thursday and was denied bail.
An attempt by McNeil’s public defender to get him released on bond was denied by the judge, who ordered him held until his next court date set for October 29.
According to police charging documents, Dean was found unconscious with gunshot wounds to his head and body at around 2:50 a.m. on August 22. A witness interviewed by police said a group of men were gambling when McNeil and Dean became engaged in a verbal altercation. The witness told police they saw McNeil point a gun at Dean, and then heard several shots. The witness later saw Dean leaving the scene in possession of a hand gun.
Following McNeil’s court appearance, family members of the victim and defendant fought physically and verbally outside the courtroom. The scuffle was quickly split up by U.S. Marshals.
McNeil was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder.
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