Rachel Baye

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

Prince George's County Police on Saturday have identified the second of two suspects in an armed carjacking that occured earlier this week. Police believe 20-year-old Christopher DeWayne Barnes, of the 1500 block of Alabama Avenue in Southeast Washington, collaborated with 17-year-old Malik...

Naomi Jagoda

Yesterday

A 20-year-old man was taken into custody after using a hatchet to kill another man in Gaithersburg, police said. Claude Alexander Allen III was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 25-year-old Michael Phillip Harvey, court records show. Shortly after midnight, Allen called 911...

Kytja Weir

Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

A Metro maintenance worker has been arrested and charged with stealing defibrillators from rail stations, the transit agency said Friday afternoon. Derrick Davis, 40, of Laurel was arrested Wednesday in an undercover sting after allegedly posting an ad on eBay to sell an automatic external...

Naomi Jagoda

Yesterday

Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille urged residents to be patient while authorities investigate the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man by an off-duty Arlington County deputy sheriff. "I am confident that appropriate justice will prevail once all facts are known," Euille said in a statement Thursday....

Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

A former Northern Virginia swim coach whose club has produced six Olympians was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for sexually abusing a girl whom he coached in the 1980s. Rick Curl, 63, pleaded guilty in February and was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The conviction...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Butt-dial M for Murder A Florida man accidently called 911 and recorded his plans for murder before the victim was fatally shot. According to the Miami Herald, Scott Simon decided to shoot Nicholas Walker after arguing with him at a nearby Waffle House. Broward County Sheriff's Office...

Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Carjacked Mercedes hits school bus A carjacked vehicle that Prince George's County police were pursuing crashed into a school bus in Southeast D.C., police said. About 7:30 a.m. Thursday, police received a call about a carjacking of a Mercedes in District Heights by two men wearing ski masks...

Scott McCabe

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced several Olympians, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a child he coached more than 25 years ago. Curl, 63, faces up to 15 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender, according to the Montgomery...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

On this day, May 24, in 2000, five employees of a Wendy's restaurant in New York were killed and two seriously wounded during a robbery. The killings were dubbed the "Wendy's Massacre." John B. Taylor, a former employee at the Queens fast-food restaurant, herded the seven workers into a...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

D.C. police have made another arrest and are looking for another suspect in the drive-by shooting that wounded 13 people in the resurgent NoMa neighborhood. Twenty-year-old Keith Deangelo Bobb of Northeast D.C. is wanted for assault with intent to kill and conspiracy to commit a crime of...