Posts Tagged ‘Oscar Fuentes’

Nine-Year-Old’s Alleged Killer Found Hanged in Jail Cell

Josue Pena, the man accused of firing the shot that killed nine-year-old Oscar Fuentes, was found hanging in his cell at the D.C. Jail and has died, police have confirmed.
Pena, 26, had been charged with first-degree murder, allegedly shooting blindly through the door of a Columbia Heights apartment, striking young Fuentes on the other side. [...]

The Washington Post‘s “Compassion Scale”

A gruesome story went unnoticed last week. On Friday the Washington Post reported that Marcellous Lindolph Jr. had been homeless and sleeping in a dumpster in Laurel, Md., when he was picked up and compacted to death by a recycling truck.
The event is disturbing, but so is the Post's coverage of it.