Two teens arrested in separate killings
D.C. police arrested two District teenagers in two separate homicides.
Police charged Curtis Faison, 18, with first-degree murder in the April 10 death of Melvin White, 27. White was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in Southeast D.C.
Police also charged a 16-year-old male with second-degree murder in the March 16 death of Marcus Harrison, 33. Harrison was shot in the 2700 block of Langston Place SE.
The two closures bring the current homicide closure rate to 76 percent. There were 42 homicides at this same time in 2009, compared with the 29 homicides this year.
Guilty plea in deadly Howard County crash
A former college football player has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the drunken-driving crash that killed a Howard County high school football player.
David Erdman was driving his younger brother, Thomas, and friend Steven Dankos home from a party Nov. 30 when he drunkenly lost control of his truck, he admitted. The truck flipped over and Dankos, 17, was killed. Dankos was riding in the truck’s bed at the time of the crash.
Dankos played football at River Hill High School. Erdman was an offensive lineman at River Hill and later at Wesley College in Delaware.
Erdman’s attorney told the Baltimore Sun that Erdman didn’t know Dankos was in the truck bed.
Navy captain kills wife, self
Norfolk police say a former commander of an aircraft carrier killed his wife and then himself two days before the final hearing on the couple’s divorce.
Police found the bodies of Robert Klosterman, 63, and his 57-year-old wife, Rebecca, inside the couple’s home Sunday.
Klosterman was the first commander of the U.S. Navy’s John C. Stennis nuclear carrier.
Compiled by Scott McCabe and Freeman Klopott
