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Trio Involved In Fatal Shooting Of 17-Year-Old In Northwest DC Get Prison Time Trio Involved In Fatal Shooting Of 17-Year-Old In Northwest DC Get Prison Time
Trey Prillerman Nelfy Hernandez Deandre Levy Taijhon Walker Three men were given prison time for their roles in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old in Northwest DC in 2020, authorities announced. Two District residents and a man from Maryland are all heading to prison after admitting to their roles in the fatal shooting of Taijhon Wyatt that also left another person injured, according to the Department of Justice. Those charged:  Trey Prillerman, 19, of Washington, DC; Nelfy Hernandez, 20, of Washington, DC; Deandre Levy, 22, of Gaithersburg.  Court documents state that at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 10, 2020, Wyatt was walking …
Shooting Over Cigarette Dispute Lands District Man 12 Years In Prison: Feds Shooting Over Cigarette Dispute Lands District Man 12 Years In Prison: Feds
Shooting Over Cigarette Dispute Lands District Man 12 Years In Prison: Feds The daytime shooter who fired more than a dozen shots outside a Northeast DC liquor store over a cigarette on a public street will spend years behind bars, federal authorities announced on Friday. District resident Ryan Parker, 24, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the March 2023 shooting of a man outside of Malcolm's Liquors on Minnesota Avenue NE after he got into a confrontation after asking the guy for a smoke. According to his plea agreement, on March 6 last year, Parker shot a man twice while they were standing outside the store, and he later admitted that the underlying argumen…
District Man Gets Prison Time For Fatal Stabbing Of 'Helpless, Defenseless' Victim In DC: Feds District Man Gets Prison Time For Fatal Stabbing Of 'Helpless, Defenseless' Victim In DC: Feds
District Man Gets Prison Time For Fatal Stabbing Of 'Helpless, Defenseless' Victim In DC: Feds The District man who repeatedly stabbed his unconscious victim to death during a knock-down drag-out fight in Southeast DC will spend more than a decade behind bars, federal authorities announced. Michael Caldwell, 29, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of 44-year-old Fort Washington resident Damien Thompson last summer, who he left to die on the sidewalk. According to prosecutors, on June 4, 2023, Caldwell was in the 4300 block of Halley Terrace SE at around 11:30 p.m. when he and Thompson got into a verbal argument on the street that rapidly escalated when Tho…
Man Who Preyed On Middle School-Aged Girls Using Social Media Gets Prison Time In DC: Feds Man Who Preyed On Middle School-Aged Girls Using Social Media Gets Prison Time In DC: Feds
Man Who Preyed On Middle School-Aged Girls Using Social Media Gets Prison Time In DC: Feds The 20-year-old District man who sexually abused four middle school-aged girls over an eight month period will have more than a decade behind bars to reconsider his actions. Social media doomed Luis Quevedo, of Northwest DC, who was sentenced by a judge to 12 years in prison for preying on young girls he met and terrorized over the Internet with bad intentions in mind. Prosecutors say that between August 2022 and April 2023, Quevedo "engaged in a pattern of behavior wherein he contacted middle school aged girls - strangers to him - via social media with the intention of luring the…
DC Man Doomed By Loyalty Card Heading To Prison For Liquor Store Shooting: Feds DC Man Doomed By Loyalty Card Heading To Prison For Liquor Store Shooting: Feds
DC Man Doomed By Loyalty Card Heading To Prison For Liquor Store Shooting: Feds Loyalty will cost a District man more than a decade behind bars after he was convicted for his role in a Southeast DC shooting, federal authorities announced. Vincent James, 39, was convicted by a jury in DC Superior Court late last year following a three-day trial after a shooting outside a Southeast DC liquor store in July 2020. On Friday, James was sentenced to 132 months in prison, according to officials. Prosecutors say that at around 2 a.m. on July 30, 2020, James got into a disagreement in the parking lot of Spar Liquors on South Capitol Street SE that turned deadly. Unprompted and…
Shooter Sentenced For Wildly Firing, Killing Innocent Bystander After DC Robbery: Feds Shooter Sentenced For Wildly Firing, Killing Innocent Bystander After DC Robbery: Feds
Shooter Sentenced For Wildly Firing, Killing Innocent Bystander After DC Robbery: Feds The man who killed an innocent bystander in Northwest DC while firing a gun wildly at robbers will spend years in prison, federal authorities announced on Tuesday. District resident Demarcus Barnett, 20, has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison after pleading guilty over the summer to voluntary manslaughter while armed for the fatal shooting of 62-year-old Lasanta Qumar McGill in June. McGill was shot and killed when an argument inside a Northwest DC market spilled out into the street and shots were fired, according to police. In August, Barnett admitted that after being robbed by…
District Man Busted With Bag Of Guns After Tripping, Falling While Fleeing Officers Sentenced District Man Busted With Bag Of Guns After Tripping, Falling While Fleeing Officers Sentenced
District Man Busted With Bag Of Guns After Tripping, Falling While Fleeing Officers Sentenced A 22-year-old District man who can't keep himself out of trouble will spend nearly a decade behind bars, authorities announced. Saadiq Logan was sentenced to 117 months in prison after being arrested last summer by members of the Metropolitan Police Department with a suspicious backpack that was loaded with illegal weapons, according to federal officials on Tuesday. According to court documents, on June 22, 2022, officers from the department's Violent Crime Impact Team were on patrol in Southeast DC when they spotted a group standing around a Mercedes that was parked in the area. Logan was…
DC Rapist Who Forced Naked Woman Into Anacostia River After Assault Gets Prison Time: Feds DC Rapist Who Forced Naked Woman Into Anacostia River After Assault Gets Prison Time: Feds
DC Rapist Who Forced Naked Woman Into Anacostia River After Assault Gets Prison Time: Feds The 22-year-old Washington, DC man who raped a stranger and force her to strip naked and get into the Anacostia River will spend nearly two decades behind bars for his role in a crime taken straight out of a movie script. Troy Ashley has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the armed rape of a stranger in Southeast DC on March 20, 2018, according to federal prosecutors on Friday, May 26. Officials say that on on the night of the disturbing incident, a woman was sitting in her car in the 3200 block of Buena Vista Terrace SE in DC, when Ashley approached her car with a gun and demanded t…
RELEASED: NJ Rapper, Associate Plead Guilty In Passaic Shooting, Freed Pending Sentencings RELEASED: NJ Rapper, Associate Plead Guilty In Passaic Shooting, Freed Pending Sentencings
Released: NJ Rapper, Associate Plead Guilty In Passaic Shooting, Freed Pending Sentencings A former Jersey City rapper who beat a murder rap in 2014 walked out of jail after cutting a deal with prosecutors for his role in a shooting in Passaic two years ago. He could be headed back to the joint for another 18 months, however. Video captured a celebratory welcoming committee greeting Albert Robinson outside the Passaic County Jail in Paterson after he and co-defendant Darnell Reeves were released. Robinson  – known as “Albee Al The Gladiator” – and Reeves had been held since September 2019 following their arrests on attempted murder charges, among other offenses, in a non-fatal …
Former DC Principal Gets 30 Months For Embezzling 175K Meant For Student Affairs Former DC Principal Gets 30 Months For Embezzling 175K Meant For Student Affairs
Former DC Principal Gets 30 Months For Embezzling 175K Meant For Student Affairs A former D.C. principal was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday, August 3, for embezzling $175,000, officials said. Bridget Coates, 49, of Falls Church was formerly the principal of St. Thomas More Catholic School, where her embezzlement scheme ran, depositing about 66 unauthorized checks, from 2012 to 2017, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The money was intended for the Home School Association, which is a program that funds student services and activities, officials reported. Coates abused her access to the association's checks and deposited the money to her account …
Family Of Slain UVA Lacrosse Player Yeardley Love To Get $15M From Her Killer: Report Family Of Slain UVA Lacrosse Player Yeardley Love To Get $15M From Her Killer: Report
Family Of Slain UVA Lacrosse Player Yeardley Love To Get $15M From Her Killer: Report A former University of Virginia lacrosse player was ordered to pay his ex-girlfriend's family $15 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit after he beat her to death, WBFF reports.  George Huguely V is serving a 23-year prison sentence after being convicted of murder for the death of Yeardley Love, of Cockeysville, in 2012. Matthew Green, Huguely's attorney, said during the trial in Charlottesville Circuit Court that Love's family was entitled to compensatory damages as his actions caused her death, WBFF reports. Love and Huguely had an on-again, off-again relationship…