Homicide is the District’s fifth in five days
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Version 0 of 1. A man was fatally shot Thursday in the fifth homicide in the city in five days. Police said Kenvontae Jones, 19, was killed Thursday on Danbury Street SW and Melvin Lee, 34, of Southeast, was arrested Friday and charged with second-degree murder. On Wednesday, Clarence M. Terry, 64, of Southeast, was found fatally stabbed in the 2500 block of Park Place SE, police said. The three earlier slayings were shootings. — Martin Weil A suspect was arrested Friday in a Nov. 13 killing in the 1300 block of Adams Street NE, D.C. police said. They said Davon Peyton, 25, of Northeast, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Roy Andre Harrison, 23, of Northeast. — Peter Hermann The man killed in a crash in Laurel on Thursday was identified by Prince George’s County police as Charles Fletcher, 66, of Lanham. He died when for reasons that were unclear, a car crossed the center line of Laurel Bowie Road near Loblolly Pine Drive and struck his car head-on, police said. — Lynh Bui A 50-year-old California man who recently had been extradited to Fairfax County on drug charges died Friday, hours after collapsing in the county jail for the second time in a week. Police do not suspect foul play, and sheriff’s officials said the man had not had physical contact with deputies or other inmates. Monty Roy Saito of Santa Clara, Calif., arrived at the Fairfax jail Nov. 10 after serving a sentence in California, Fairfax Sheriff’s Capt. Tyler Corey said. On Monday, a deputy heard a noise and found Saito on the floor outside his cell. The deputy said he believed that Saito was having a seizure, Corey said. Saito was taken to Inova Fair Oaks Hospital an then to Inova Fairfax Hospital. He was treated at the hospital and released Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office said. Saito was then placed in the jail infirmary. Early Thursday morning, a deputy performing a routine cell check found Saito on the floor of his cell in the infirmary, unresponsive but breathing, Corey said. Paramedics were called, and Saito was taken back to the hospital. Later Thursday, Saito’s family was notified that he was on life support. Early Friday morning, Saito was removed from life support and pronounced dead. The homicide unit of the county police department will investigate the death. — Tom Jackman |