Local digest: D.C.-area news briefs
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Version 0 of 1. An assault charge against a woman who stabbed her boyfriend last month was upgraded to murder after the man died Sunday, D.C. police said. Sean Maichael Baker, 36, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder while armed, police said. She had been charged with assault with intent to kill while armed. The stabbing occurred during a dispute Jan. 27 in an apartment in the 300 block of 37th Street SE, police said. The victim was identified as Robert Leroi Wiggins, 35. A man accused of fatally shooting his 2-year-old daughter and her mother after a confrontation over child support was ordered held without bond Thursday by a Prince George’s County judge. Daron Maurice Boswell-Johnson, 25, has been charged with two counts of first- and second-degree murder in the deaths of NeShante Alesha Davis, 26, and Chloe Nichole Davis-Green, 2. Davis and Chloe were shot Tuesday morning outside their home in Fort Washington. — Lynh Bui Police have identified a 19-year-old man from Southeast Washington as the victim of a shooting Wednesday in Suitland. Officers found Maurice Larnell Sinclair wounded in an apartment in the 2500 block of Darel Drive shortly after 1 p.m., Prince George’s County police said. Sinclair was pronounced dead at the scene. — Lynh Bui A pedestrian died Wednesday after being hit by a car in Clinton, authorities said. Prince George’s County police said a car headed west in the 9100 block of Piscataway Road hit Abulhasan Ansari, 71, of Potomac, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the car remained at the scene. — Dana Hedgpeth A Charles County sheriff’s deputy shot a man who had a gun in Waldorf on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The deputy saw the man standing in the intersection of Post Office Road and St. Charles Parkway at 2:10 p.m., sheriff’s office spokeswoman Diane Richardson said. The man was standing by the driver’s window of a car stopped at a red light, Richardson said, and appeared to be arguing with the driver and trying to pull open the car door. When the deputy approached the man, the man ran away, the sheriff’s office said, and he did not comply when ordered several times to stop and show his hands. The deputy fired after the man reached for his waistband and turned toward the deputy, Richardson said, hitting him twice, in a leg and the buttocks. She said the man’s injuries were not considered life-threatening. Deputies later found that the man, described as in his 20s, had a handgun in his waistband. The deputy, whom the sheriff’s office did not identify, was placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. — Julie Zauzmer A teenager heading to school was knocked down by a naked man in Woodbridge on Wednesday, police said. Police said that Musab Mohamed El-Sheikh, 37, also assaulted a neighbor who tried to intervene and that he was charged with assault and battery, abduction and indecent exposure. Prince William County police spokesman Nathan Probus said the 16-year-old girl was walking at 6:15 a.m. to her school bus stop on Charter Court. The teen ran from the naked man, police said, and he chased her down the street. Probus said a man walking his dog tried to help her. But El-Sheikh knocked the man and the teenager to the ground, police said. Then the assailant grabbed the teen and would not let her go until police came, Probus said. El-Sheikh, of Woodbridge, was taken to a hospital for a mental-health evaluation, police said. |