The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the possibility that the murder this week of a 66-year-old tourist in Petworth could be linked to other attacks in the neighborhood, NBC4 reports. more ›

The German national accused of killing his 91-year-old socialite wife last August but was in February deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, is still unfit to face the charges against him, doctors say. more ›

Police in Howard County, Md. said the body of a woman who went missing in 1991 was discovered underneath a shed on the property of her husband, who has been arrested and charged with murder. more ›

The death of a baby girl left on the doorstep of a Northeast home in January has been ruled a homicide, reports WTOP. more ›

A pregnant woman's fetus has died after the mother was stabbed and seriously injured in a home invasion early Thursday morning in the Washington Highlands neighborhood, police said. more ›

A 35-year-old man who was out celebrating at party marking the closing of a Brookland night club early Sunday morning was killed after being stabbed multiple times. more ›

Last week's news that D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier was juking the stats on the city's homicide clearance rate by including years-old cases may have seemed like a ding in her otherwise strong armor, but she chose to fight back over the weekend and won herself a partial victory when the Post published a lengthy clarification to its story. more ›

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 ›