If prosecutors get their way, the five men found guilty yesterday of leading the 2010 South Capitol Street shooting that left five people dead won't ever see the outside of a prison cell. more ›

The five men charged with killing five people along South Capitol Street in 2010 were found guilty by a jury this afternoon. more ›

Five men on trial for first-degree murder in five shooting deaths in March 2010 arrived in court this month wearing black-plastic, thick-framed eyeglasses, even though only one of them actually has a prescription for corrective lenses. more ›

Albrecht Muth was indicted yesterday for killing his 91-year-old wife, Viola Drath, last year, writes Homicide Watch. Beyond facing a charge of first degree murder for the killing of the Georgetown socialite, Muth faces additional time if convicted for "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel" way Drath was killed and the fact that she was "especially vulnerable due to age." 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 ›

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has been using some creative accounting methods to make it look like police are closing more murder cases than they actually have. more ›

Albrecht Muth, who is accused of killing well-known Georgetown socialite Viola Drath last year, is being sent to St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital for a mental evaluation, reports Georgetown Patch. more ›

Albrecht Muth has always been an odd character, and a judge ruled today that he wasn't capable of representing himself in his upcoming trial for the murder of wife Viola Drath last year. more ›

Lululemon killer Brittany Norwood was sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole at a Montgomery County court this afternoon, reports WJLA. 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 ›

The family of Neil Michael Godleski -- the 31-year-old Catholic University student who was shot and killed in a robbery attempt as he rode his bike through Sherman Circle last August -- is now suing the city, claiming that the city's Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services failed to keep the teen responsible under its watch. more ›

After about an hour of deliberation this evening, a Montgomery County jury found Brittany Norwood, the woman accused of brutally murdering her Lululemon Athletica coworker Jayna Murray, guilty of first-degree murder. more ›

In every post that has appeared on this site regarding the death of Jayna Murray inside the Lululemon Athletica shop in Bethesda and the murder trial of her attacker Brittany Norwood, I haven't been able to avoid using the word "brutal" to describe the crime. Such adjective usage was rather depressingly justified this morning. more ›

This afternoon, one of the Apple Store employees who reportedly heard Jayna Murray being murdered by Brittany Norwood inside the Lululemon Athletica testified during the third day of Norwood's murder trial. 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 ›

After two days of rigorous jury selection, opening statements in the trial of Brittany Norwood were delivered today. And based on what the defense presented this afternoon, it could be an even more explosive trial than expected. more ›

Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police Department announced that they had made two arrests in connection with the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Demetrius Emmanuel Thompson on a Metrobus last Thursday. more ›

Montgomery County authorities are currently investigating the scene of what appears to be a grisly murder-suicide in Rockville. more ›

D.C. police have ramped up efforts to find two suspects who they believe were involved in the murder of 22-year-old Demetrius Thompson on a Metrobus on shortly after midnight on Thursday, releasing footage of the two suspects as they boarded the bus. more ›

The widow of a D.C. sanitation worker who was murdered last October at a DPW facility is now suing the city over negligence in implementing recommended safety measures. Larry Hutchins was killed, and one other worker injured, when an unknown man, reportedly dressed in a DPW uniform, open fire on the facility grounds more ›

This afternoon, a Fairfax County jury found Carmela Dela Rosa guilty of first-degree murder, determining that clearly understood what she was doing when she dropped her 2-year-old granddaughter off a sixth-story elevated bridge at Tysons Corner Center last year. 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 ›

If there wasn't already something odd about Albrecht Muth, Friday's preliminary hearing into accusations that he killed his 91-year-old wife Viola Drath surely exposed what will certainly be an interesting defense. more ›

Perhaps realizing that "she used to use her head to hit a soccer ball" might not be the airtight defense they're looking for, attorneys for Brittany Norwood now say they plan to argue that police did not properly Mirandize the suspected murderer before she spoke with police. more ›

A Metropolitan Police Department officer has been removed from active duty and placed under investigation after she allegedly ignored a murder committed by a man with whom she was "romantically linked." more ›

Yesterday, a Montgomery County judge denied a request made by attorneys representing Brittany Norwood, the woman on trial for the brutal murder of Jayna Murray inside the Bethesda Lululemon. more ›

Calling the case "one of the most horrible he had heard in his courtroom," D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher sentenced Roderick Ridley, a 34-year-old D.C. resident, to 74 1/2 years in prison yesterday -- despite the fact that a jury could not reach a verdict on the charge of murder. more ›

Last Friday, former Washington Wizard Javaris Crittenton -- a key player in the Gungate drama that enveloped the team in 2010 -- was charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of 22-year-old Jullian Jones in Atlanta earlier this month. more ›