Pr. George's Slaying Suspects May Be in Gang, Police Say- June 12, 2008 Authorities think four Prince George's County youths accused of fatally assaulting a 56-year-old man are members of a small gang that formed a few years ago "with the idea to run around, beat up people and rob them," a police investigator said yesterday.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/310357197/AR2008061... 4 Pr. George's Teens Held in Fatal Beating- June 11, 2008 Four Prince George's County youths, ages 14 and 15, have been charged with first-degree murder after they "laid in wait" for a 56-year-old man, knocked him to the ground and kicked him so viciously that he died two days later, authorities said.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/309609490/AR2008061... Police Close Streets In Trinidad to Steer Drivers to Checkpoint- June 10, 2008 D.C. police stepped up efforts last night to curb violence in the hard-pressed Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington, choking off access to several streets there to force drivers to pass through the new anti-crime checkpoint, Chief Cathy L. Lanier said.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/308771754/AR2008060... Daughter Makes Plea for Witnesses To Come Forward- June 10, 2008 The 27-year-old daughter of a Salvadoran shopkeeper slain last month in Silver Spring pleaded yesterday for the public's help solving the case, stressing that potential witnesses shouldn't fear speaking to the police.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/308771753/AR2008060... Va. Governor Commutes Death Sentence- June 10, 2008 Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has stopped tonight's execution of triple murderer Percy L. Walton and commuted his sentence to life in prison without parole, saying that Walton is mentally incompetent and that putting him to death would be unconstitutional.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/308771755/AR2008060... Inmate Guilty in Killing on Bus But Not Criminally Responsible- June 10, 2008 A judge yesterday found a Maryland state prison inmate guilty of first-degree murder but not criminally responsible in the 2005 slaying of an inmate on a prison bus, calling the death a preventable tragedy that resulted from a series of errors by corrections officials and guards.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/308771756/AR2008060... REGIONAL BRIEFING- June 9, 2008 Divers were searching for the body of a 17-year-old presumed to have drowned yesterday in the Rappahannock River, according to Stafford County officials.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/308149178/AR2008060... Slayings of Latinos Increasing in Prince George's- June 8, 2008 In Prince George's County, where young black males have overwhelmingly dominated homicide statistics for decades, young Latino males in recent months were nearly as likely to be killed.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/307502056/AR2008060... Police Charge Wife, Teen Daughter in Plot To Kill Manassas Man- June 7, 2008 The way police tell it, a 17-year-old Manassas teenager woke up her father in the early-morning hours of May 23, told him she heard noises outside and watched him leave the house, all the while knowing that someone was waiting there to kill him.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/307502058/AR2008060... Conviction Upheld in Terror Plot- June 7, 2008 A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction of a Falls Church man for plotting to kill President Bush and sent the case back to a lower court for resentencing -- a victory for prosecutors, who had argued that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali's 30-year prison term was too lenient.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/crime/index_xml/~3/307502064/AR2008060... |