Father arrested in daughter’s 2010 death D.C. police have made an arrest in the slaying of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin, whose body was found in a trash can last year in Columbia Heights.
The father of the Maryland girl, 45-year-old Southeast D.C. resident Rodney McIntyre, was arrested late Saturday afternoon and charged with first-degree murder, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.
Franklin was reported missing on Nov. 27, 2010, by her mother, whom the girl lived with in Prince George’s County. Police later found Franklin stabbed to death and stuffed in a trash can.
A combination of forensic and electronic evidence linked McIntyre to the slaying, and there was “evidence of a sexual relationship” between the father and his daughter, Lanier said.
Man stabbed at Centreville house party
Fairfax County police are searching for four people after a man was stabbed early Sunday morning at a party in Centreville.
A group of uninvited guests arrived at a party on the 6700 block of Jenny Leigh Court, and, after refusing to leave, got into a dispute with the partygoers in a parking lot. Police said the man was stabbed while trying to wrestle a gun from one of the uninvited guests.
Police responded to the home about 3:15 a.m. The victim, in his early 20s, was transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital with life-threatening injuries, though his condition is believed to have improved, according to police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell.
Man shot in Southeast D.C.
District police are looking for a man after a Southeast resident was shot during an early Sunday morning gunfight.
Officers responding to reports of a gunfight on the 3000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue found a man suffering gunshot wounds to the stomach and both his legs. The unidentified man is in stable condition, a spokesman said. Few details about the culprit were available — police described him as a black male with short hair.
– Ben Giles
