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As of March 11, 2020, there have been 31 homicides in the District. The homicides have taken place in 23 neighborhoods throughout the District with Mount Vernon Square/Triangle, Shaw, Southwest…
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One of two murder defendants was appointed new counsel during a status hearing. Demonte Hewitt and Kurt Hewitt , who are cousins, have been charged with second-degree murder while armed for…
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A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for his role in the death of another man. In January, James Manuel Johnson pleaded guilty to…
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A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced a murder defendant March 29 to two years in prison for “facilitating” a fight that led to the death of a 29-year-old man. In…
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Throughout the last three months, the District has seen an uptick in teenage homicide victims. According to D.C. Witness data, during the month of August there were no teenage homicides,…
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There were 19 homicides in the month of July, the majority of which were gun related deaths – a four year trend.
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Throughout the month of June, 15 homicides took place across DC, which is almost twice as many as June 2017.
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Police arrested a suspect in connection to the fatal shooting of Johnathan Grady on June 28.
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There were 12 homicides in October 2017 and nine cases were resolved. Here is our monthly wrap-up of cases covered in October. Homicides Of the 12 homicides, ten of them…
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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…
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Perez Green, the man charged with the murder of James Harling last October was offered a plea deal on Friday. Though details of the deal were not made publicly available,…
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