WTOP reports that Maryland prosecutors have notched another guilty plea in the Brian Betts murder case. Artura Otey Williams, the mother of a teen who pled guilty to robbing Betts with a handgun, pled guilty on Tuesday to using credit cards which were stolen from Betts after his death. Williams used a card that belonged to Betts to make various purchases at Giant, Shoppers Food Warehouse and Foot Locker — she plead guilty to two…

WTOP reports that one of the four individuals charged with killing popular Shaw Middle School principal Brian Betts will enter a guilty plea today. Betts, who was 42, was found dead in his Silver Spring home in mid-April. In total, five people have been arrested in connection with the crime.

According to lawyers in the first-degree murder case of former D.C. school principal Brian Betts, the finger-pointing has started to fly among the four accused teens. Police suspect all four, Sharif Tau Lancaster, Alante Saunders, Deontra Gray and Joel Johnson, responded to Betts’ sex chat line offer to meet up at his Silver Spring home in April, intending to rob him. Betts was found dead the next day by a coworker from gunshot wounds. WTOP…

A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Shaw Middle School principal Brian Betts, WTOP is reporting. The Washington Post identifies the suspect as Joel Johnson, 19, of an unconfirmed address. Johnson was reportedly arrested Tuesday evening in the 100 block of Ivanhoe Street SW, and is currently being held in the D.C. Jail, awaiting extradition to Montgomery County. Johnson faces charges of one count of first-degree murder, one count of…

A third suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of Shaw Middle School principal Brian Betts. Montgomery County Police say they took Deontra Q. Gray, 18, of the of the 1300 block of Southview Drive in Oxon Hill, into custody on Tuesday and charged him first degree murder, one count of armed robbery, and one count of conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Two other 18-year-olds, Sharif Tau Lancaster and Alante Saunders,…

Brian Betts A D.C. woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of Shaw Middle School principal Brian Betts, both NBC4 and the Washington Post are reporting. Montgomery County police took a 46-year-old woman into custody this morning in the 5300 block of Fifth Street NW. She’s been charged with crimes that are linked to the death of Brian Betts, including allegedly using Brian Betts’s credit card over the past several days, but…

DCPS is expecting so many people to attend the public memorial service for slain Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson principal Brian Betts that they’ve moved the event to the Music Center at Strathmore. The public is invited to attend the event, set for Saturday, May 1 from 10-11:30 a.m. Current and former students, parents, colleagues, family and friends are especially encouraged to participate. The Music Center at Strathmore is located at 5301 Tuckerman Lane in…

Image courtesy DCPS DCPS has organized a public memorial service for those in the community wishing to honor the memory of Brian Betts, the slain principal of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. The memorial will take place on Saturday, May 1 at 11 a.m. in the Cardozo Senior High School auditorium (1200 Clifton Street NW). Separate memorials and tributes for the Shaw school community are planned for this month. On April 22, DCPS will…

View Larger Map WUSA9 reports that Montgomery County Police have located the navy blue 2007 Nissan Xterra which belonged to murdered Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson principal Brian Betts. The car was found on Saturday morning on the 3900 block of 4th Street SE. The Post adds that the vehicle did not appear to be damaged. No additional details were provided about anything else authorities may or may not have found at the scene, but…

Brian Betts. Photo by Bel Perez Gabilondo, courtesy DCPS The Post is now reporting that Montgomery County police chief J.T. Manger, while still waiting for the results of an autopsy, believes that the death of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson principal Brian Betts was a homicide. He went on to say that the preliminary investigation leads him to believe it was most likely not a random killing. Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans…