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…

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…

Martin mentioned it briefly in the roundup already, but we’re saddened to hear about the death of Brian Betts, 42, who was the principal of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. Betts was found dead in his Silver Spring home Thursday night by a co-worker, who had gone to check on him after he failed to show up for work that day. Police are calling the death suspicious, and WTOP is citing law enforcement sources…