VIA MYFOXDC: There is a new warning from police. Robbers are hip to new chat technology. A seemingly innocent meeting with someone could prove dangerous. Prince William County Police are investigating a case that happened April 12. A 28-year-old Manassas man downloaded a text chat application to his cell phone. Police said he exchanged pictures […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A third 18-year-old was charged Tuesday in the slaying of well-known D.C. principal Brian Betts. Deontra Q. Gray was charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. According to charging documents, Gray “admitted that he was at Betts’s residence at the time of the murder.” Sharif Tau […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A 46-year-old District woman has been charged with using slain principal Brian Betts’s credit cards over the past several days and authorities have issued an arrest warrant charging a second person with Betts’s murder, police and law enforcement sources said. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Prince William police are investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide Monday morning at a Dale City house that served as a day care center. Police said the incident took place about 7 a.m. on the main floor of the house. Seven children were downstairs in the basement at the time […]
VIA SINGERSROOM: Los Angeles authorities have officially changed the death certificate belonging to late King of Pop, Michael Jackson to reflect an exact cause of death. Updated due to the completion of a lengthy investigation, Jackson’s cause of death has now been labeled a murder due to ‘acute Propofol intoxication’ via an ‘intravenous injection from […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A D.C. police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony murder in connection with a fatal shooting about two weeks ago in Southeast Washington, police officials said. In a case that appeared to be without recent precedent, police said Reginald Jones, who has been a member of the force for […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Metropolitan Police Department Tuesday announced it has charged a suspect in the 1997 murder of a 25-year-old woman at her home in Adams Morgan. Frederick Edward Morton, 57, was arrested at a federal prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, where he’s been locked up since July on a violation of probation. […]
VIA MYFOXDC: D.C. police swarmed Columbia Heights Saturday night seconds after 9 year old Oscar Fuentes was shot. Police say the boy was inside his apartment when the gunman fired a shot through the door, striking the boy who was standing behind the door. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said her officers did detain several people, […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON, D.C. – D.C. Police say the beloved owner of a U Street corridor restaurant was murdered. The body of Norah Amaya, who co-owned Coppi’s Organic, was found in her Northwest Washington apartment on Monday night, and investigators say she died of strangulation. Amaya’s body was found in her apartment around 9 p.m. […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON – A D.C. woman convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months returns to court Friday for a hearing on her refusal to use an insanity defense. Banita Jacks was found guilty in July of the four murders. She faces life in prison and had been […]
