Mayor Fenty and Chief Lanier held a press conference this morning to announce that arrests have been made in the stabbing death of Giovanni Sanchez, 14, in Columbia Heights on Friday. The Post was there and reports that Hector Diaz and a minor whose name was not released are being charged in the killing, which took place in the middle of the afternoon at the intersection of 14th and Newton streets NW.

According to the Post story, Fenty also said there have now been a total of 183 homicides in the District so far in 2008, which is seven more than were killed in all of 2007. Eight people have now been killed since last Wednesday.