A player for a District semiprofessional football team was sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a team official outside a high school practice field. Twenty-five-year-old Oma Crawford, of Landover, pleaded guilty in July to second-degree murder while armed in the slaying of 36-year-old Ralph Thomas.

Crawford played defensive back for the D.C. Falcons, who practiced at McKinley Technology High School in Northeast Washington. Thomas was part of the team management.