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Thursday, February 03, 2005

Gory Prince George's: News coverage and locations of January murders

Updated to add locations of killings by police that were not included in the original posting.

News Coverage (based on both original print or broadcast reports and continuing Internet availabilty of reports or summary reports [more]:)
  • Prince George's County Police Department
    • Good. Most, but not all reports are online on the Police Departments press pages.
  • Examiner/Journal
    • Poor. The print edition can be very difficult to find if you live in a redlined area and do not leave your immediate neighborhood every day. The HTML web edition has almost no content. The PDF web edition is not searchable, not archived, and often not timely posted. The lack of availability is a shame because the Examiner occasionally has superior coverage and analysis. The old Journal, which once had a relatively complete HTML-based site, and the best long-term archives in the region (since removed by the last management), would have ranked on top with the Gazette.
  • Gazette
    • Excellent. The Gazette is the only news source that provided current coverage of every Prince George's County January murder.
  • Post
    • Good. The Post had at least minimal coverage of most but not all January murders.
  • Times
    • Very poor. The Times website has one summary of some of the murders in the first part of January--their coverage of Prince George's County murders is the clearly the worst of local print outlets. I was surprised that they have not used the murder epidemic as an excuse to beat up on Prince George's County's all-Democrat goverment.
  • WTOP
    • Fair to Poor. I had expected WTOP to rank among the better sources, but their coverage was only marginally better than that of the Times.
  • WJLA & News8
    • Fair. They had minimal coverage the majority of murders, about as many as the Post, but with less information.. Their website can be unreliable--Google searches frquently link to pages now missing from the WJLA site.
  • WRC
    • Fair. Slightly less coverage than WJLA. The WRC website, although busy and confusing, is more reliable and somewhat easier to use than WJLA's.
  • WTTG
    • Very Poor. Some murders are covered, but stories are not retained on the website and the site is all but unusable for historical purposes.
  • WUSA
    • Very Poor. On a par with WTTG--few reports, poor search engine.
Locations:
  • Summary of areas with the most homicides:

    • Council District 7 (Exum), 6, including 2 by police.
    • Legislative District 24 (Exum, Benson, Howard, Vaughn), 5, including 1 by police.
    • Zipcode 20743, 4, including 1 by police.
  • Council Districts:
    • 1 (Dernoga)
      • Patricia Ann Lunsford, 65 (Jan 23)
    • 2 (Campos)
      • Wootnie Carr Jackson, 20 (Jan 7)
      • Xandria Elaine Lecky, 34 (Jan 19)
      • Jacqueline McCartan, 15 (Jan 31)
      • Reuben Earl Carson, 31 (Jan 31)
    • 5 (Harrington)
      • Darnell Anthony Wright, 19 (Jan 10)
    • 7 (Exum)
      • Shawn Omega Chambers, 24 (Jan 3)
      • Bruce Saloman, 34 (Jan 14)
      • Ohiri William Okechuwku, 27 (Jan 15)
      • Carl Perry Johnson, 35 (police, Jan 19)
      • Eric Alonzo Lawrence, 19 (police, Jan 21)
      • Edmund Sowah, 45 (Jan 27)
    • 8 (Knotts)
      • Tyrone Jackson, 20 (Jan 6)
      • Unidentified man (Jan 8)
    • 9 (Bland)
      • Alexander Barnett Collins, 17 (Jan 4)
      • Keith Walston, 27 (Jan 28)
  • Legislative Districts:
    • 21 (Giannetti, Frush, Menes, Moe)
      • Patricia Ann Lunsford, 65 (Jan 23)
    • 22 (Pinsky, Gaines, Healy, Ross)
      • Xandria Elaine Lecky, 34 (Jan 19)
    • 24 (Exum, Benson, Howard, Vaughn)
      • Bruce Saloman, 34 (Jan 14)
      • Darnell Anthony Wright, 19 (Jan 10)
      • Ohiri William Okechuwku, 27 (Jan 15)
      • Eric Alonzo Lawrence, 19 (police, Jan 21)
      • Edmund Sowah, 45 (Jan 27)
    • 25 (Currie, Brown, D. Davis, Griffith)
      • Shawn Omega Chambers, 24 (Jan 3)
      • Alexander Barnett Collins, 17 (Jan 4)
      • Carl Perry Johnson, 35 (police, Jan 19)
      • Keith Walston, 27 (Jan 28)
    • 26 (Lawlah, Kelley, Patterson, Turner)
      • Tyrone Jackson, 20 (Jan 6)
      • Unidentified man (Jan 8)
    • 47 (Britt, Niemann, Parker, Ramirez)
      • Wootnie Carr Jackson, 20 (Jan 7)
      • Jacqueline McCartan, 15 (Jan 31)
      • Reuben Earl Carson, 31 (Jan 31)
  • Zipcodes:
    • 20705
      • Patricia Ann Lunsford, 65 (Jan 23)
    • 20722
      • Wootnie Carr Jackson, 20 (Jan 7)
      • Jacqueline McCartan, 15 (Jan 31)
      • Reuben Earl Carson, 31 (Jan 31)
    • 20735
      • Alexander Barnett Collins, 17 (Jan 4)
    • 20743
      • Bruce Saloman, 34 (Jan 14)
      • Ohiri William Okechuwku, 27 (Jan 15)
      • Eric Alonzo Lawrence, 19 (police, Jan 21)
      • Edmund Sowah, 45 (Jan 27)
    • 20745
      • Tyrone Jackson, 20 (Jan 6)
      • Unidentified man (Jan 8)
    • 20746
      • Shawn Omega Chambers, 24 (Jan 3)
      • Keith Walston, 27 (Jan 28)
    • 20747
      • Carl Perry Johnson, 35 (police, Jan 19)
    • 20782
      • Xandria Elaine Lecky, 34 (Jan 19)
    • 20785
      • Darnell Anthony Wright, 19 (Jan 10)

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