Homicidewatch.org Website Review

MARK EVERY DEATH. REMEMBER EVERY VICTIM. FOLLOW EVERY CASE. For more than four years, the faces of those killed in the District have circled through the top of Homicide Watch DC. Children, te*nagers, ad*lts, the elderly. In photos they smile, or scowl. They’re pictured laughing, looking cool, or sometimes angry. It can be too much to look at. To see who we’ve lost is to remember that each of them has family and friends, teachers, co-workers and neighbors. The community of people who’ve joined us here on Homicide Watch DC have opened their stories and the justice system for us in an their way through the court system. They are awaiting preliminary hearings, indictment or trial, a process that can take years. Most cases end with a plea deal: 116 of the cases we’ve followed saw a defendant plead guilty common conviction, with voluntary manslaughter close behind. Read more Two D.C. men were arrested Wednesday in connection with the the Christmas Eve shooting death of 28-year-old Gregory Lee The District of Columbia recorded 108 homicides in 2014, two more than last year. It is the second consecutive year that the number of Homicides reached a 50-year low in 2012. That year, MPD counted 88 homicides (excluding four ruled self-defense, for a total of 92 Five children were counted among this year’s victims, including three infants. Two of those infants never had names. Both died late last year, and their deaths — allegedly at the hands of their mothers — were ruled homicides this year. Raj’saun Tyrik Brown Police found Hooks and another man in the 1300 block of Alabama Avenue Southeast, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Both were taken to a local hospital, where Hooks later died from his injuries. Bradley, 20, is suspected of first-degree murder while armed. Goode, 53, behind a building in the 1100 block of First Place Northwest suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Goode was lying on his back against a concrete wall wearing a backpack. He had a $50 dollar bill clutched in his right hand, according to docu*ents. He