Man arrested in connection with fatal shooting

Published December 14, 2008 5:00am ET



A 30-year-old Largo man has been arrested in connection with a home invasion shooting in Columbia Heights that left a man dead and a 5-year-old boy wounded.

D.C. police arrested Allen Butler after they linked him to a burning minivan that had been stolen from a home where he had been staying, according to charging documents. Butler was charged with first-degree murder and was ordered to be held without bond.

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