Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are trying to identify a suspect in a homicide. Read more »

Two Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers have been charged in connection with the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, who was struck by a vehicle during a police chase. Read more »

Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Robert J. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge denied the prosecution's request to use their preferred private laboratory to test evidence in a homicide case. Read more »

Twenty-one homicides happened in DC during the month of July, an approximately 10.5 percent increase from June.  Shootings were the main cause of death for all but one of the victims, according to D.C. Read more »

DC officials held a press conference July 17 in relation to a shooting that killed a 6-year-old girl.  Shortly after 11 p.m. Read more »

DC Superior Court judge granted a continuance for both parties in a murder case. Read more »

As the DC Superior Court continues to face the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on operations, many homicide defendants await jury trials from DC Jail, where data shows some of them have been held for more than three and sometimes four years. Read more »

Editor's note: On May 30, a jury acquitted Devonte Brothers of all charges connected to the homicide of Deron Leake. Read more »

On Feb. Read more »

The three people who died from medical emergencies during the storming of the U.S. Read more »

DC Superior Court judges issued 59 bench warrants for felony charges from June 1 to Sept. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge held seven defendants and released twelve during initial hearings on Dec. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge ruled that a murder case has enough evidence to go to trial. Read more »

Amid the backlog created by a suspension of jury trials in the DC Superior Court due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a judge scheduled hearings for seven murder defendants.   During the Nov. Read more »