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DC Metro Rider Gets Prison Time For Unprompted Attack During Morning Commute: Feds DC Metro Rider Gets Prison Time For Unprompted Attack During Morning Commute: Feds
DC Metro Rider Gets Prison Time For Unprompted Attack During Morning Commute: Feds There was no love in the air for a District man on Valentine's Day this year after he was sentenced to prison time for accosting a man nearly three years ago. On Wednesday, federal authorities announced that 36-year-old DC resident Neal Pitt has been sentenced by a judge to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after being convicted of assault with significant bodily injury for an attack on the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station platform in March 2021. During the morning commute on March 9, 2021, federal prosecutors said that Daniel Olsen was heading to work when…

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Second Feuding Street Gang Member Sentenced For Fatal Courtyard Shooting In Southeast DC Second Feuding Street Gang Member Sentenced For Fatal Courtyard Shooting In Southeast DC
Second Feuding Street Gang Member Sentenced For Fatal Courtyard Shooting In Southeast DC A 23-year-old District man who was involved in a criminal street gang will spend decades behind bars for his role in what prosecutors called a "brazen" shooting. Quincy Garvin was sentenced by a judge to 36 years in prison for shooting into a courtyard in the Potomac Gardens area of Southeast DC in 2017 and killing Carl Hardy, who was standing outside, federal authorities announced. Between May 2017 and October 2017, Garvin was part of a gang that operated out of Wellington Park, which resulted in a number of "beefs" with other people in parts of the city, many of which were the result of f…

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by Zak Failla
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Gunman Who Killed Music Artist In Virginia Recording Studio Learns His Fate Gunman Who Killed Music Artist In Virginia Recording Studio Learns His Fate
Gunman Who Killed Music Artist In Virginia Recording Studio Learns His Fate A 47-year-old Washington DC man convicted of killing a 32-year-old man in a Virginia recording studio then fleeing to Maryland has been sentenced to prison time. Cinquan Louis Blakney entered an Alford plea of no contest to a second-degree murder charge in the 2019 Woodbridge shooting death of Tristan Sellers, on Thursday, April 13, Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney Amy Ashworth said. Judge James A. Willett subsequently sentenced Blakney to 40 years in state prison with 20 years suspended, and five years of supervised probation upon release. Sellers, who went by "Slim Tristan," …

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by Cecilia Levine