Prince George's County police this afternoon released the identities of the victims of two nearby homicides Monday night. more ›

The deaths of two young men whose bodies were discovered last night in New Carrollton have been ruled homicides, Prince George's County Police said. more ›

Police on Friday identified released the identity of a transgender person who was fatally stabbed last week near a Metrobus stop on East Capitol Street NE and also released video from a nearby traffic camera depicting an individual who is being described as a "person of interest." more ›

A transgender person who was stabbed last night at a Metrobus stop last night has died, WTOP reports. The death of the victim, who has not been identified, brings to memory the spate of violence last year against transgender people. more ›

While the District may have hit its own 50-year low in term of homicides, so did Arlington County -- it had none for the entirety of 2011, writes WJLA. more ›

With only a few days left in 2011, the District is likely to see fewer murders this year than at any point in the last five decades. more ›

Last September, 21-year-old Jamal Coates was killed during a brazen daylight drive-by shooting on U Street NW. This week, reports Homicide Watch, seven men have been charged for gang violence and retaliations that led to seven deaths since 2006 in Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan and U Street -- including Coates'. more ›

No one will be charged in the death of GW grad student and Afghanistan war vet Patrick Casey. more ›

So far in 2011, there have been 100 homicides in the District. That's 17 percent fewer killings than 2010. Of course, the number of murders alone don't fully define broader crime trends in the District. more ›

Rodney McIntyre, who pled guilty to brutally murdering his 17-year-old daughter Ebony Franklin in July, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. more ›

Via Homicide Watch D.C., The Daily Beast reports that the District has become something of an international model on how to combat high murder rates. more ›

After two transgender individuals were involved in late night attacks along Dix Street NE, District police are warning residents that the crimes may represent a "potential emerging pattern." more ›

This morning, we noted that an individual was shot and killed on the 6000 block of Dix Street NE. It's now been revealed that the victim of the shooting, which took place around 4:30 a.m. at 6110 Dix Street NE, was a transgender individual. more ›

Nearly 6 months ago, MPD made the gruesome discovery of the body of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin in a dumpster in the ally of the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW. Now, they have arrested Rodney James McIntyre, Ebony Franklin's father, for her murder. Ebony was stabbed 17 times. more ›

On January 9, 1999, Joyce Chiang disappeared. Today, police announced that they had closed the case. more ›

An unidentified man was found dead on the 5500 block of 3rd Street NE, near the Fort Totten Metro station at 8 a.m. this morning. MPD is investigating the man's death as a homicide. No further information regarding the man's identity or the circumstances surrounding his death are currently available. more ›

Last night, two people died in separate incidents in D.C. and Montgomery County, MD last night. In downtown Silver Spring around 5:15 p.m., an armed man was shot and killed by a police officer when brandishing an icepick. Police report that an officer saw a dispute between two men when patrolling in his vehicle. One of the men yelled that the other man was armed with a knife, and when the officer ordered the man to drop the weapon the man refused, and the officer shot the man. more ›

Ready for some football D.C.? And all of the junk food and beer that goes with it? Super Bowl Sunday is upon us, and all of the reveling that's involved. Beyond that, it's pretty nice out today - so maybe you should take a walk to preemptively burn all of those calories you're going to consume tonight. more ›

Last Sunday, during a roundtable discussion on NBC's Meet the Press, Representative Raul Labrador (R-ID) made the mistake of attributing seven recent homicides to the District of Columbia, when in fact they had occurred in neighboring Prince George's County. Despite the fact that all Labrador (or someone on his staff) had to do to avoid the error was simply look at this website which said the District had only experienced three homicides at the time of his comment, we were still willing to cut the guy a break. After all, we realize that it's incredibly easy for some members of Congress to simply lump our region together into one homogenous geographical glob. more ›

There's no relief from the flurry of violence in Prince George's County: a 22-year-old University of Maryland student was killed in a robbery attempt this afternoon. The death marks the 11th homicide in Prince George's County this year, an unbelievable figure for a County which only recorded 96 killings in 2010. more ›

It's the 8th day of January and Prince George's County, MD has already had its 8th homicide of the New Year. Police have attributed the uptick in murder to a drug ring, but it is unclear if this homicide is related. Police were called to an apartment building in the 1400 block of University Boulevard in Hyattsville at 8 a.m. Saturday and discovered a man in the parking lot of the apartment building. The man was later pronounced dead at an area hospital. more ›

Yeesh. Police in Prince George's County are now investigating yet another homicide, the seventh reported in the County in the last five-and-a-half days. NBCWashington.com reports that authorities received a report of a shooting on the 900 block of Central Hills Lane in Seat Pleasant around 11:45 this morning -- a victim was found dead at the scene. This death is but the latest in a series of killings which police are mostly attributing to drug-related motives; there's no word yet on whether this shooting is connected to the other killings. more ›

Not even six full days into 2011, and Prince George's County authorities are struggling to cope with a spree of severe violence which has, so far, claimed six lives. more ›

UPDATE: (4:18 p.m.):The U.S. Attorney's Office has released a statement regarding the medical examiner's report, stating that they "intend to carefully study these conclusions as part of our legal analysis of this tragic incident."

UPDATE (3:54 p.m.): The cause of Mohammed's death, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, was "Excited Delirium Associated With Arrhythmogenic Cardiac Anomalies, Alcohol Intoxication and Physical Exertion With Restraint."

TBD reports this afternoon that a source with the Ethiopian-American Cultural Center tells them that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled the October 15 death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed outside DC9 a homicide. more ›

Homicide statistics have often been bandied about as an easily digestible, if flawed, metric of how well a mayor has battled crime during a given administration. Not surprisingly, the homicide watch in D.C. -- a city where, at one point in the late 1980s and early 90s, more than 400 people were being murdered every year -- has gotten a lot of attention during outgoing Mayor Adrian Fenty's term. Police Chief Cathy Lanier stoked additional interest in the number by proclaiming her goal to reduce the city's homicide total to under 100. Lanier and Fenty didn't reach that goal during the mayor's term. But that hasn't stopped the media from proclaiming Fenty's excellent performance in tamping down the homicide count during his nearly four years in office. more ›

D.C. police have identified the dead woman who was found in an garbage receptacle in a Columbia Heights alley yesterday as 18-year-old Ebony Franklin of Capitol Heights, Maryland. Franklin had reportedly been stabbed in several places on her body. According to the Washington Post, the D.C. medical examiner has ruled Franklin's death a homicide. more ›

Marvin Palencia, a maintenance supervisor, has been arrested for murder of coworker Jacobo Vazquez, whose body was found in a box below I-70 in Frederick County on Tuesday. Palencia had become the main suspect of the murder and was arrested without incident Saturday afternoon. He has been charged with first degree murder. Two teens have been arrested in connection to the possibly-gang related murder of 15-year-old Miguel Hernandez. Hernandez was murdered Friday afternoon in Manassas, stabbed to death by a group of teens who attacked him on his way home from Osbourn High School. more ›

Sue Marcum, a 52-year-old accounting and taxation professor at the American University's Kogod School of Business, was found dead in her home at 6200 Massachusetts Avenue in Bethesda this morning. more ›

It's officially been another year of triple-digit homicides in the District of Columbia. Freeman Klopott noticed today that MPD's crime statistics show that, once again, D.C. has surpassed the 100 homicide mark. Attempting to keep D.C. homicides under 100 has been a bit of an obsession for Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier throughout the years; this year, the city at least made it into October before hitting the century mark. Last year, it was still September when the milestone was hit. more ›

What a rollercoaster: the Washington Post is now reporting that the D.C. Medical Examiner's Office has said that the death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed near DC9 early this morning has not been ruled a homicide. Not many more details are available at this time, but this news certainly would go a long way in explaining why this afternoon's arraignment was postponed. more ›