
"My hope for the New Year is for everyone with an unsolved killing to find the person who killed them. Turn yourself in and step up to the plate," said 9-year old Cearia Puifory."I also hope that every family who has been hurt by violence...[has] more joy."-Jan. 7, 2006 The Afro American |
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The Last Steps of Damion M. King
The tragic cause of the death of Damion (Dirty) M. King was like some of the many unsolved crimes, a petty beef, usually over drugs, girls or money, sometimes it’s all three. In the tens of thousands of spoken words from the November 2002, jury trial, United States Of American versus Glenn E. Davis, Jr., a few words spoken recycle to the tragic night of May 16, 2000 and the last steps of Damion Mikel King, murder by the hands of some of those prime suspects who were recounting the night their friend/cousin had met his fate and who had encountered the steps of Damion and fled with his blood on their hands. In April and May of 2000, Damion (Dirty) was a regular around the area of the 3100 block of Newton Street, North East a known drug area at that time, across from the Maryland line of Eastern Avenue, on some weekends the area was cluster with slow moving cars line to purchase drugs, a few teens wanted to control the block of detach single family homes where some people had lived for several decades, leaving the nights to the drug crowd as police seem to ignore the block as they enter and left Sunny Carry Out with their chicken wings or Chinese food,
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012, 9:38 pm.
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Slaying of Shin, Remains a Mystery
A request by a friend of a murdered victim that occurred over ten years ago, brought this article to our site, at the time of the request, I wish I could get some news of his case being close with an arrest and conviction of someone, I had very little information, but had listed a poem written by the victim years ago on our site title – Dream a Little Dream, after talking with the Montgomery County Police and waiting a few minutes as they check their records, the detective reported the case was
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012, 2:46 am.
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Trayvon Martin, Speak Up to Truth

I am Trayvon Martin, some signs say, as many people, young ,old, black, Hispanic, white, college, and nearly all walks of life have chanted in demonstration across our country, many in hoodies crying out for justice in the killing of seventeen year old Trayvon Martin. It is good to see people come together to seek justice in any and all cases were true justice has been lacking, some people have come from far places to take a stand in what some see as a open and close case for the arrest of the shooter George Zimmerman, whose father is white and mother Hispanic, Zimmerman claims self-defense.
The truth is,
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012, 5:06 am.
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Sentencing In Triple Slaying
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – A Maryland man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role a 2008 triple slaying that has been called one of the most vicious attacks in the region in recent times, one that went unsolved for more than two years.
The Nov. 19, 2008, stabbings of brothers
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011, 11:57 pm.
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Facts and Rumors

Often in murder cases there is the fact of a dead body, who”s life we will no longer be able to communicate with as we once did, he or she is dead. No one on this earth can bring them back. Then their are the rumors as to why, who, what, where of street talk that sometimes never get the full attention of the police, as to who murder whom, and why. Between facts and rumors, little get solved, detectives will say they can not build a case on hearsay, they need a eye
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Monday, October 24th, 2011, 1:07 pm.
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Just tell what you heard
If someone murdered your friend, or your sister, brother or mother, you would want someone to tell, wouldn’t you, be honest, you would want a snitch.

D.C police found Bobby L. Jackson early in the morning of June 25, slumped over dead and unarmed in a lawn chair after being shot in the back at least seven times. Many more shell casings were scattered nearby.
More than two months after the shooting,
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011, 2:48 pm.
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A Family’s Long Wait
Even though he has answers now after so many years there were none – his grief scabbing over but never healing, his stubbornness and persistence all that kept him going – William McCabe is still adding to th book about his son. He pores over its pages, editing here, scribbling there, his hands, at 83, not as dexterous as they used to be. “Don’t look back .” he says. ” there’s stuff there that I’m going to give to the police.”
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011, 9:14 pm.
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Arrest in Triple Murders

The arrest of 34- year -old Delante T Cook of New Carrollton, Maryland, in connection with the triple murder of brothers Terrence, 38, Ryan Strope,26 and friend Andres Yelicie, 26 in the brothers residents in the 5400 block of Moultrie Road in Springfield, Virginia on November 19, 2008. More arrest are expected. Lorence Babu, 24 was arrested and confess to the murder of Rebekkah Seely, 30 at the time of his arrest on November, 24 2008, in New York, he was in possession of a cell phone that belong to Terrence Strope, there are many question to be answer in the case. The indictment alleges that Delante T. Cook , Jelani Slay, along with
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011, 8:31 am.
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Living Beyond Twenty-Four
In our nations capitol and some other larger cities, young people are dying on our streets at an early age. There are too many vigils, too may tears, too many funerals, too many parents losing a child before the age of twenty- four, losing a love one at any age can be sad, losing a young person to murder, should be unacceptable, but, now is the norm in this and too many other cities. Preachers preach, some march, and comfort at too many funerals of young people. Mayors declared war on crime, they make neighborhood speeches, some people protest, some work in after school programs, gang intervention. In the first few months of this
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011, 8:55 pm.
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Happier Days, for Youngins

In life there are happy days and sad days, sometimes we wonder what if … in the murder of former junior high school principal Brian K. Betts and the teens who went to his home, which lead to Mr. Betts death. The arrest and conviction of Alante Saunders, Sharif Lancaster, Joel Johnson, and Deontra Q. Gray. The young men are losing a value part of their life , but they can one day make good contributions to their families, friends and society, if and it’s a very big if, they learn and honestly do the right things in life, will they?, will more young men and women, who are making the wrong choices in life learn from this or similar tragedies that
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Sunday, February 27th, 2011, 11:54 am.
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Shot to death in the 2600 blk. of 13th St., NW

Stabbed to death in home at 5400 Moultrie Road, Springfield, VA

Biniam Gebreyesus was stabbed and killed in the 1000 blk of Vermont Avenue NW.

Shot to death in the 1300 blk. of Barnaby Terrance SE
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