Updated: Need help identifying 2006 murder victims

(Posted 22 Jan 2007; homicide summary & statistics)

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Earlier this month I posted a plea for help in identifying homicide victims who had not been named in online police department press releases or published news reports.

Although the police department did not respoind directly to me, they have now posted online information naming many of the unidentified victims, as underlined:

• 6. 045: Raymond Alexander Lewis, 23, of no fixed address.
  
• 27 May 2006, 6:30 am
• Silver Hill Road, 5200 block (near Suitland High School)
• Police, 2 Jun 2006.
  
• 6.065, Ronald Rader, 34
• 11 Jul 2006, 10:15 pm
• Windom Road, 3700 block
• Police, 13 Jul 2006.
• 6.069: Unidentified person, age not reported
• 7 Aug 2006, 2:08 pm
• Wilson Bridge Drive
• No online police press release or press report. (Police posted no press releases online August 1-7.) Listed in Gazette police report, 17 Aug 2006. Not listed in Post police reports.
  
• 6.075: Unidentified man, age not reported
• 19 Aug 2006, 4:30 pm
• Ager Road near West Hyattsville Metro
• Died in police custody while resisting arrest. No online police press release. No known followup by the Post or Gazette after initial reports apparently based on a police press release that was never posted online.
  
• 6.076: Unidentified woman, age not reported
• 22 Aug 2006, 6:24 pm
• Greenleaf Road, 7500 block
• Not identified in original police report. On August 30 police asked for help in identifying the victim.
  
• 6.082: Walter Cortez, 44, of Peru
  
• 3 Sep 2006, 7:00 am
• 38th Avenue, 3500 block
• Police, 29 Dec 2006.
  
• 6.125:Marcus Dean Harmon, 25, of Colebrooke Dive, 2500 block, 20748.
  
• 16 Dec 2006, 2:30 am
• Branch Avenue, 3700 block
• Police, 18 Dec 2006.
  
6.132: Robert Stewart, 36, of no fixed address.

• 30 Dec 2006, 7:15 pm
• Kaywood Drive, 4200 block
• Police, 4 Jan 2007.