Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "crime"

  • Murder in Southeast

    The Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that Anthony James Perkins, a 29-year-old Southeast resident and ''member of the LGBT community,'' was found dead, shot inside...

  • Wone Update

    One day prior to meeting with D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg for a status hearing in the Robert Wone case, the defense team filed...

  • 180 Days for Death

    Judge Rafael Diaz of the D.C. Superior Court sentenced Robert Lee Hannah to the maximum of 180 days, on Wednesday, Oct. 14, for ''simple assault''...

  • Q Street Questions

    There has been confusion and there have been endless questions in the few days since a knife attack left one local woman injured and another...

  • Injury, Then Insult

    In his first few days living in the District last fall, Jonathan Howard found himself caught in a daily routine: opening his Web browser to...

  • Trial Date Set

    At this point, a murder trial in the murder of Robert Wone seems unlikely. It's been more than three years and no one has been...

  • Be Safe

    ''Take your hand off of me!'' Farah Fosse yelled as Lauren Taylor's advances made a scene last Wednesday night at BeBar. The confrontation turned the...

  • Police Seek Suspect

    The Metropolitan Police Department is on the hunt for a suspect believed to have been involved in a ''gay on gay'' robbery near Massachusetts Avenue...

  • Clue-Hunting Quartet

    In a dimly lit townhouse near Dupont Circle on a recent Wednesday night, four gay friends share an obsession: the mysterious murder of Robert Wone....

  • Attacker Sentenced

    Judge Harold L. Cushenberry Jr. on Feb. 6 sentenced Ruddad Abdulgader, originally from Sudan, to 30 months incarceration for participating in a bias-related hate crime...

  • Meeting with the Mayor

    Last year was not a good year. Two reported homicides and several violent attacks against GLBT people in the District galvanized the community, leading several...

  • No Wone Murder Charge

    Following a status hearing regarding the Robert Wone murder case, U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner confirmed on Friday, Jan. 16, that the U.S. does not plan...

  • Fenty, Lanier Meet with GLOV

    Chris Farris and Todd Metrokin, co-chairs of the newly re-formed Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), met with D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Metropolitan Police...

  • Flight Risk Dismissed

    D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg ordered Dec. 19 that three gay men indicted on ''obstruction of justice'' charges in the investigation of the murder...

  • GLOV Presses Fenty

    The newly re-formed GLOV -- Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence -- on Dec. 17 sent a letter to Mayor Adrian Fenty asking that he take...