On March 21, Erika Peters and her two young boys were found murdered in their Carver Terrace home at 2000 Maryland Avenue NE Apt. 104. Within hours, her live-in boyfriend Joseph Randolph Mays was charged with the fatal stabbings. This week I wrote a cover story about the tragedy and the several questions left unresolved. [...]
Today, Erika Peters and her young sons, Erik Harper and Dakota Peters, will be laid to rest. The wake and funeral services will be starting at 9:30 a.m. at Mount Calvary Holy Church at 610 Rhode Island Avenue NE. On March 21, they were stabbed to death in their apartment. Police have arrested Peters' [...]
Yesterday, Joseph Randolph Mays was arraigned on homicide charges for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Erika Peters and her two young sons in their Carver Terrace apartment on Saturday. In filings before the court, the D.C. police wrote a narrative of what transpired on that Saturday afternoon. It is the first detailed account of the triple [...]
Last night, City Desk got a bit of news on the triple homicide case—that the family did have contact with social services in 2006. Today, the Washington Post has an in-depth look at the problems between Erika Peters, her children and her live-in boyfriend.
The live-in boyfriend, Joseph Randolph Mays, was charged in the murders Saturday [...]
Mafara Hobson, Mayor Adrian Fenty's spokesperson, confirms that the victims in yesterday's triple homicide in Northeast had contact with social services. A statement is being prepared which could take some more time. The victims–Erika Peters and two of her children–were stabbed and found by D.C. Police yesterday afternoon inside their Carver Terrace Apartments.
Last night, Joseph [...]
WTOP reports that Joseph Randolph Mays was arrested for the triple homicide in Northeast yesterday. Mays is alleged to have killed Erika Peters and two of her children. Mays was Peters live-in boyfriend. The station writes:
"Police say Peters and one young boy were dead at the scene. The second young victim was taken to a [...]
The Washington Post has identified the victims in today's triple homicide at the Carver Terrace Apartments in Northeast. According to family members of the victims, they are: "36-year-old Erica Harper Peters, and her two sons, Eric and Dakota"
"Kimberly Trimble, Peters's sister, said that Erica had lived in the apartment with her boyfriend for three years. [...]
The Washington Post is reporting that D.C. Police detectives are investigating a triple homicide discovered this afternoon where a woman and two children–ages 8 and 10–were found in a Northeast apartment. The Post writes:
"The slayings occurred at an apartment building in the 2000 block of Maryland Avenue. Several ambulances and police cars were on the [...]
On January 31, 17-year-old William Van Croft went missing from his home. City Desk wrote about this case when the police finally posted a missing-person's release, We've talked to William's mother Jackie and last posted an update at the end of February. There now appears to be a significant break in the case. D.C. Police [...]
Yesterday, we blogged up D.C. Police Officer Robert Schmidt's arrest on solicitation charges. The cop was arrested on February 20 after trying to buy sex from an undercover cop at a downtown hotel. We just got a little bit of the court record on this case. The details are very smooth. According to a police [...]
As everyone who reads LL Daily knows, the Washington Post reported that a D.C. Police officer was busted for soliciting SEX from a prostitute last month. (This is not shocking. Have you seen some of our cops?). Officer Robert A. Schmidt was busted in a downtown hotel as part of an internet-sting operation run by [...]
There is a man down on the landing of our parking garage. He has wedged himself between a foot-high concrete wall, the cigarette urn, and the second floor door. It's a small space, barely room enough for his small frame. I do not notice this man.
Our beloved photographer, Darrow Montgomery, who just biked past him, [...]
Orange Hat Patrols are out. Blogger patrols are in. Borderstan has announced that it will be hosting the "Borderstan Night-Safety Walk Around" this Thursday with plenty of law enforcement types on hand: "Join police and city government staff for a quick walk around Borderstan. The purpose is to point out dark areas that need lighting, [...]
The D.C. Police Department is making these guns and ammo seizures a regular feature on its website. As if before that annoying gun amendment to the D.C. Voting Rights Bill was added, guns weren't a problem—at least not a problem worth documenting on an almost daily basis. But kudos to the department for doing it. [...]
A few days ago, I called David Kerstetter's parents in Arizona. I wanted to know what they thought about the D.C. Police Department's sudden change in policy in how it handles mentally-ill residents. Their son had been suffering from mental-illness and was shot and killed by a police officer on Nov. 6 inside his home. [...]
