Police are investigating Saturday’s fatal shooting of 18-year-old Khyre Amar Ledbetter.
Police found Ledbetter and a juvenile male victim with gunshot wounds, in the 300 block of P Street, SW. Ledbetter and the other victim were transported to local hospitals for treatment. After all lifesaving efforts failed, Ledbetter was pronounced dead. The juvenile victim had non-life threatening injuries.
No suspect information has been released.
The jury trial for Antwon Green’s case resumed today after the Thanksgiving break.
The government presented evidence to a detective on the witness stand, showing him photos of the defendant with various weapons. According to the detective, the photos were taken from the defendant’s memory card.
Green is charged with second-degree murder while armed for allegedly shooting and killing Breond Keys on Oct. 10, 2014.
Keys was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1400 block of Good Hope Road, SE. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The government will allow Davon Holmes to appeal his sentence.
Holmes was sentenced to 24 years on Oct. 18, 2013 after a jury trial found him guilty in 2013 of second-degree murder while armed.
Holmes, of Northwest, was arrested on Sept. 9, 2011 and plead not guilty for the murder of Marcellus Terrell Bailey. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch found Bailey on the 5300 block of 8th Street, NW on Aug. 3, 2011. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A status hearing is scheduled for Jan. 5, 2018.
Danjellicca Ball was shot and killed in the 5200 block of Just Street, NE on Nov. 15.
Tsegaye Gebrehiwot succumbed to his injuries on Nov. 13 after being assaulted on Sept. 24 on the 5100 block of 2nd Street, NW.
Yoselis Barrios was shot and killed on the 1300 block of Rottenhouse Street, NW.
Jamel Mackabee was arrested and charged with first-degree murder while armed for the murder of Taleisha Ford on Jan. 20, 2007 at 1919 9th Street, NW.
George Edwards was arrested and charged for first-degree murder while armed for the murder of Reginald Perry on Nov. 7, 2015 at 1700 block of 8th Street, NW.
Dwayne Hilton was sentenced to 61 and a half years for the 2011 murder of 18-year-old Mico Briscoe.
Briscoe was fatally shot on Nov. 26, 2011, in the 1200 block of Mount Olivet Road, NE. Briscoe along with four others were shot at outside of a Circle 7 convenience store in Trinidad. According to an article written by The Washington Post, Hilton and an accomplice followed Briscoe and his friend outside of the store and shot at the group 19 times. The other person who was shot survived. In February 2013, Hilton was arrested and charged for first-degree-murder while armed.
In 2016, he was found guilty for the murder charge, assault with intent to kill, and other firearm offenses. He was sentenced on Friday for the murder.
The man who raped and murdered actress and yoga instructor Tricia McCauley last Christmas was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday.
Tricia McCauley was driving on her way to a Christmas party last year when Duane Johnson entered her vehicle and sexually assaulted her. According to the prosecution, Johnson used McCauley’s scarf to strangle her to death and then tied her legs using the car seatbelt. Her body was hidden between the front and rear seat. Her cause of death was ruled as strangulation, blunt force trauma, and multiple contusions, and her autopsy revealed that Johnson’s DNA was on her body.
Johnson was arrested on Dec. 26 at a CVS pharmacy with her car. According to Johnson, they had consensual sex before McCauley hung herself. He then drove around for hours in her car, while using her credit card because McCauley had told him he could have all of her belongings. Johnson has been held without bond since his arrest.
Johnson pleaded guilty in September to first-degree murder in exchange for a 30-year sentence, pending the judge’s approval. Following his sentence, Judge Hiram Puig-Lugo ordered that he be placed under 30 years of supervision.
The Metropolitan police are investigating the shooting death of 25-year-old Christian Isaac Lopez Ramirez.
Lopez was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the early hours of Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017 in the 1000 block of Spring Road, NW. Police found Lopez unconscious and he was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Marcel Harrison of Southeast DC was found dead late on the evening of Nov. 18, 2017.
Police found 30-year-old Harrison unconscious, and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds on 3000 block of 30th Street, SE.
He was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The MPD is investigating.
Xavier Lyles was found killed on June 24, 2014 on the 2500 block of Pomeroy Road, SE.
Tsegaye Gebrehiwot succumbed to his injuries on Nov. 13 after being assaulted on Sept. 24 on the 5100 block of 2nd Street, NW.
A man was sentenced to 24 years in jail on Thursday for murder.
George Edwards, 28, was found guilty of murder for fatally shooting Reginald Perry in November 2015.
During the sentencing, Perry’s aunt read a letter addressed to Edwards, where she expressed the impact that Perry’s death had on the family. She spoke of how Perry’s son will have to grow up without a father, and how she hopes Edwards will turn his life around after his sentencing.
She presented eight photographs of Perry and Perry’s son to Judge Florence Pan.
“Give him the thing that Reginald will never have — time,” she said, addressing the judge. “Give him time.”
Edwards also read a letter addressed to Perry’s family, where he apologized for the situation and acknowledged the pain he brought to the family in a three-page letter.
“I am who I am, because of one person,” he said. “Myself.”
Defense attorney Dorsey Jones told the judge about Edwards’ background, the numerous jobs he’s had in the past, and the multiple letters that members of Edwards’ family had written.
Judge Pan sentenced Edwards to 288 months in jail, with 5 years of supervised release. In addition, he will have to register as a gun offender in the District of Columbia.
