May 12, 2009
Boyfriend Arrested in Pregnant Woman’s Death
That was certainly fast. Police have arrested Bernard Bellamy, 20, of Oxon Hill, and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Valicia Demery, 19, whose body was discovered early on Sunday on a jogging track behind Forestville Military Academy, the Post is reporting. Bellamy was taken into custody at West Virginia State University, where he is a sophomore. The suspected motive is painfully obvious: Demery was four months pregnant, and Bellamy was…
May 11, 2009
Woman’s Body Found on Md. High School Running Track
Grim story of the death of District Heights, Md. resident Valicia Demery, only 19. The AP via WTOP reports her beaten body was found by a jogger at about 6:30 a.m. Sunday on the running track at Forestville Military Academy, the high school from which the victim had recently graduated. WJLA has heartbreaking reaction from Demery’s family and friends, plus this detail: “Demery’s father Garrett says that she left the family home around 4…