THE DISTRICT76-year-old woman is charged with murderDistrict police charged a 76-year-old woman with murder in the beating death of an elderly man in Northeast on Friday. Thomasine Bennett was initially charged with assault with intent to kill, but the charges were changed to first-degree murder while armed after an autopsy showed that Clark died of “blunt force trauma,” police said. — Fredrick KunkleSpecial police officer is shot in parking lotDistrict police are investigating a shooting Saturday in Southeast that injured a special officer with a private company. Police said the shooting stemmed from a dispute at a house party but provided no other details in the ongoing investigation. Sifuentes died at the scene, police said.

Source: Washington Post February 20, 2017 00:11 UTC