Friday, January 27, 2017

MPD Seeks Person of Interest in Tuesday's Homicide in the 1600 Block of Benning Road



The Metropolitan Police Department has released a video that shows a man walking through a parking lot before pulling out a gun and firing in broad daylight on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 2:37 p.m. in the 1600 block of Benning Road. This shooter took the life of 35-year-old Willie Starkey, of Northeast, DC. Mr. Starkey was shot multiple times.

MPD currently offers a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons wanted for any homicide committed in the District of Columbia. Your assistance is appreciated by your community. Ref. CCN #17-013-426.

Anyone who can identify this individual or who has knowledge of this incident should take no action but call police at (202) 727-9099 or text your tip to the Department's TEXT TIP LINE to 50411.

16 comments:

Annoyingmous said...

Jesus christ.

Anonymous said...

how can a shooter just disappear in broad daylight?

Anonymous said...

Violent crime seems likes its increasing. #Bowser

pat said...

Three witnesses, I suspect they didn't see anything.

Is this by the laundry or was this down by the church?

I was riding the streetcar and thought I saw a crime scene being worked by the laundry.

inked said...

Pat,

It was by the laundromat.

Anonymous said...

Lets put this in perspective. More black men get killed in PSA 507 in a year than get killed by cops nationwide in a decade. Numbers do not lie. President Trump should put Mayor Bowser on Official Notice via Twitter, like he did for Chicago, that if she doesn't get this fixed in a year that he will send in the Feds. #BlackLivesMatter

Annoyingmous said...

Anon 5:39 -- really, REALLY bad troll. You could have made a claim that seemed at least *possibly* plausible. Instead, you came up with one that was just absurdly silly. On the order of 200 black men get killed each year by police. 2000 black men a year killed in PSA 507? Ha.

Anonymous said...

Been following all the protests and seems like all the white folks are marching for everything but black lives...must have been a fad like kale

Anonymous said...

@ 8:40, I don't think that's entirely accurate. People have concerns against the administration. A lot of concerns. It seems something similar to Occupy. I don't know. There are a lot of issues that somehow seems to involve Starbucks and Bank of America. It's very confusing. The issue of African Americans getting killed by police seems to be one of the major ones.

Violent crime in urban areas, which happens to be mostly done by African Americans, is a another concern on the opposite side. Police trying to do their jobs get caught in the middle. Innocent African Americans trying to live like everyone else are caught up in this too. Among other issues too that seem to involve are Syrians wanting to live in the US of all places to live at the moment.

And there are those who don't want to get involved in the national debate. Who want to go to work, get home at a reasonable time, and safely, have a hot dinner and maybe hope to get HJ or something at the end of the day.

Anonymous said...

In my observation, the majority of victims of these kinds of violent crimes in NE have been criminals themselves. This didn't look like a mugging or a robbery - this looks like some petty gang beef that escalated.

Annoyingmous said...

Anon 9:17 -- Interesting. Can you elaborate on the analysis you used to arrive at that conclusion? Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Has anyone done the math?

At what date Will the black on black crime deaths and resulting incarcerationa result in no living African Americans ( NB: I did not say black or brown)
in the US ?

Anonymous said...

Annoying 9:17 - Troll baiting aside (though perhaps it was I who seemingly laid the bait), which conclusion do you refer - the "petty gang beef" piece? Something about walking up in broad daylight outside a laundromat in that neighborhood and gunning someone down in that manner.

Annoyingmous said...

Anon 1:11 -- not sure if you're responding to me, since I'm Annoyingmous, but I wasn't 9:17. Anyway, it seemed like Anon 9:17 was saying that this looked like "a petty gang beef that escalated," and I wondered why, since I can certainly think of plenty of other (sadly) common scenarios that would play out the same way but don't involve the victim being a gang member or a criminal or both: someone decided they'd been disrespected; someone got mad that someone else was flirting with/having sex with/whatever the wrong woman; someone saw something that someone else didn't want them to; etc.

Anonymous said...

either way it is natural selection at work. The fittest shall survive. Whomever walked out of that parking lot was the fittest. No one cares about the poor and invisible anymore its all about the rights of immigrants and woman ....keep up folks !

curmudgeon said...

Anon 8:53: you're a moron.

HTH. HAND.