Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.metro From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: D.C. homicide detectives kept busy Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 15:01:10 EST Message-ID: \SE B;METROPOLITAN \HD D.C. homicide detectives kept busy \BY Brian Reilly \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES A man and woman were killed by gunmen who barged into a Southeast apartment yesterday morning, continuing a bloody string of violence that has left 17 slain in the District since Friday. The latest violence has left detectives so busy that some investigations have lagged because of investigators' heavy caseloads, officials said. "We're all working hard," said Capt. Wyndell Watkins, commander of the Metropolitan Police Department's homicide division. Capt. Watkins yesterday said detectives are "aggressively" pursuing the latest shootings and have closed a number of last week's murders with arrests or warrants. In the first homicide yesterday, one of four men shot during a robbery in a residence in the 4700 block of Queens Chapel Road NE at 2:15 a.m. died of his injuries. The man, whom police would not identify, was pronounced dead about 5 a.m. The three others were all in critical condition at D.C. General Hospital and were not identified because they are witnesses in the case. Police have not made any arrests in the case. Later yesterday morning, an 18-year-old man and a woman in her late 20s were found shot to death in a second-floor apartment in the 3000 block of Stanton Road SE, near the Suitland Parkway. They have not been identified by police. In that incident, gunmen forced their way into the apartment at 10:30 a.m. and opened fire on the couple, police said. The shooting appears to be drug related. Police were searching for a burgundy Nissan ZX with temporary tags in connection with the shooting. Police yesterday also identified two men killed Monday. Fred D. Maise, an 86-year-old Lincoln Park resident, was found dead at the foot of a set of basement stairs outside his home about 10:45 a.m. An autopsy determined he had died of blunt force trauma. Police suspect Mr. Maise was robbed and then beaten to death. Joseph Emmanuel Stackhouse, 28, was shot by a resident of a home he was apparently burglarizing in the 1200 block of Harvard Street NW about 10 p.m. Mr. Stackhouse, of the 2300 block of Green Street SE, died minutes later at the MedSTAR unit of the Washington Hospital Center. In another serious shooting Monday night, a 19-year-old man was shot in the back in the head when gunmen opened fire on a yellow Ford he and three companions were sitting in at Third and Peabody Streets NW. Police are looking for an older model white car that drove alongside the Ford about 8:40 p.m. before men in the car fired at least 20 shots at the Ford, shattering windows, blowing out a tire and hitting the 19-year-old. Between 11 p.m. Sunday and 11 p.m. Monday, five persons were slain in the District, said Lt. James Boteler of the homicide branch, matching the count for the night and early morning of Oct. 23-24. While the homicide rate this year had been about 10 percent behind last year's record pace, the recent wave of killings has narrowed the gap. As of yesterday, there were 382 homicides in the District this year, compared with 395 at this time in 1991. * Margaret Rankin contributed to this report. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM