Chantilly woman charged in death of 11-month-old
A Chantilly woman has been arrested in connection with the death last October of an 11-month-old boy she was baby-sitting, police said.
Carol Lutsky, 20, was charged with child abuse/neglect and murder in the death of Nehemiah Williams, according to the Vienna Police Department.
Lutsky had already returned the boy to his mother in Reston by the time Vienna police arrived on Oct. 5, police said. Officers went to the mother’s location and found Nehemiah, who was then hospitalized. He died on Oct. 6.
An autopsy found the boy died from blunt force trauma to his upper body.
D.C. man sentenced in fatal shooting near school
A D.C. man was sentenced to 70 years to life in prison Tuesday in a 2000 shooting that killed two people, federal officials said. Michael Wonson, 34, was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder and other charges in May.
Federal prosecutors say Wonson fatally shot Charles Jackson and Ivory Harrison, both 21, on May 17, 2000, outside Eastern High School on East Capitol Street Southeast. He and a co-conspirator fired 40 rounds toward a group of more than one dozen people, killing the two and injuring a 22-year-old woman who was making a U-turn, federal prosecutors said.
Two men assaulted in D.C. in possible hate crime
Two men were assaulted in Northeast D.C. over the weekend, and police said they are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
The attack occurred about midnight Sunday on the 1900 block of Third Street NE. Three males yelled homophobic slurs at the victims and assaulted them, police spokesman Officer Anthony Clay said.
One of the victims was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
