Homicides

WASHINGTON — D.C. police have announced that suspects have been arrested in two cases in the District where bystanders were shot and killed by stray bullets — one from October, another from 2016.

As of December 28, 159 people had been murdered in the District in 2018, a significant uptick in homicides. In fact it’s a 39 percent increase over last year, when there were 114 homicides total in the city, according to data from the…

There may be peace in some places on Earth this Christmas, but not in some parts of our nation’s capital. The spirit of the season hardly intersects with daily life on the streets, where death seems to carry the day — as shown by the…

WASHINGTON — A medical examiner found 13 children in the District died by homicide. And a newly released D.C. police report found 13 juveniles were also arrested for murder in 2018.

On a chilly December morning, nearly three months after the runner’s death, her makeshift memorial was still visible.

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A DC woman is turning her grief from her son's murder into an opportunity to give to the homeless.

With three weeks left in 2018, the number of homicides in the District is nearly 45 percent higher that last year’s total, prompting one lawmaker to say the city is in a “state of emergency.”

“FOR WHAT? For five dollars? For 25 cents? For a bag of chips?” So asked the mother of 14-year-old Steve Slaughter , who was fatally shot in January during a bungled street mugging in Southeast Washington. He was the District’s fifth…

Shot dead at 14, Steve Slaughter fell victim to the scourge of everyday gun violence

A Maryland man was found guilty Thursday of murdering three members of a wealthy Northwest Washington family and their housekeeper in 2015, brutal crimes that gripped the nation’s capital. The jury’s Thursday verdict in the case against…

A D.C. TEENAGER who had been shot more than a year earlier died from his injuries on Jan. 5, becoming the city’s first homicide victim of 2018. Five days later, on Jan. 10, another teenager — Paris Brown, 19 — was shot and killed in…

TaQuan Pinkney was a determined, positive young man who was getting ready to start college. Though he did everything he could to steer clear of violence, he could not escape the reality of his Ward 8 neighborhood and circumstances far out…

Bucking a trend in other major U.S. cities where the homicide rate is heading down, the District has just passed a grim milestone: More people have been killed in the city so far this year than for the entire year of 2017. And there’s more…

The Washington Times reported on New Year’s Eve 2014 that “the city finished the year with 105 homicides, one more than was recorded in 2013 — a year that included 12 people killed in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.” 2014 also…

Four people were fatally shot in the District on Monday and early Tuesday, bringing this year’s homicide count to 119, surpassing the number of people killed in the city in all of 2017. The surge of violence has continued since this past…

WASHINGTON — On a rainy Monday night, dozens of people who live near D.C.’s Logan Circle crammed into a meeting room to talk about a crime that has left the neighborhood on edge. Last Tuesday night, 35-year-old Wendy Martinez, an avid…

As a proud and happy resident of the Hillsdale community for the past 15+ years, I have dutifully crossed the Anacostia River every day to travel to work. Most of that time has been spent working in philanthropy. The landscape has changed…

WASHINGTON — Though I’ve been lucky to have been insulated from gun violence most of my life, it was at the core of the identity of my hometown, Washington, D.C. According to a study by the Pew Research Center, Washington recorded more…

It was a shocking crime in a wealthy Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Firefighters responded to a 911 call for a house on fire, but inside they found the bodies of three members of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper, tortured and…