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By DCist contributor Sam Tabachnik

On the night of June 4, 2004, 54-year-old Darren McManus was stabbed during an assault on the 4700 block of Sheriff Road NE. He was hospitalized and later released. Eleven years later, D.C. police said that the stabbing has been ruled a homicide.

It is one of two stabbings from more than six years ago that D.C. Police are now investigating as homicides.

Along with McManus, who died this May of complications resulting from multiple chest wounds sustained more than a decade ago, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has also ruled a 2009 stabbing a homicide.

Jose Lopez, 39, was stabbed on April 18, 2009 in the 1400 block of 8th Street NW. He was pronounced dead on June 14 after being transported from a rehabilitation hospital to a local hospital for medical treatment. The cause of death was also determined to be “complications from multiple stab wounds,” according to the police statement.

The homicides have pushed D.C.’s count for the year thus far to 120. That is a fifty percent increase from this point last year.