Weltham Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 9:08 am

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft from vehicle

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 6:19 am

Weltham Street, 3416, home sale reported

WELTHAM ST ., 3416-Lizzie N. and Willie L. Jones to Monica G. Bennett, $169,900. 

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft, 10:44 am

Scottish Avenue and Curtis Drive, theft from vehicle, 5:27 am

Weltham Street, 3400 block,robbery, 10:25 am

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, residence was entered, 6:50 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft from vehicle, 8:27 am

Aberdeen Street, 3305, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3305-Nichole Berry to Robert Staley, $134,000.

Scottish Avenue, 3200 block, theft fom vehicle, 10:07 am

Aberdeen Street, 3403, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3403-Betty M. McMeekin to Angelina Boyrie and Mayra D. Figueroa, $159,500.

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 5:13 pm

Weltham Street & Scottish Avenue, theft from vehicle, 10:03 am

Weltham Street & Scottish Avenue, 28 Sep 2002, 10:03 am

Andover Place, 3404, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3404-Edward and Vickey Minor to Gabrieal V. and Leonard F. Parran, $155,000.

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, arrest in connection with a theft, 1:33 am

Bonita Street, 3421, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3419-Theresa and Joseph Zirccardi to Maurice T. Hines, $145,000

Andover Place, 3400, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3400-John and Jessie Leonard to Susie Evans and Lucille Brown, $157,000

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 7:41 am

Lassie Avenue, 3215, home sale reported

LASSIE AVE ., 3215-Wilbur P. and Elva B.O. Connor to Marvin Plater, $148,500. 

Aberdeen Street, 3412, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3412-Jeannette A. Langley trust to E. Shirley M. and Louis G. Butler, $155,000

Kevin Nigel Morse, Weltham Street, 3400 block

Washington Post - Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Author:Jamie Stockwell, Washington Post Staff Writer

Homicides have been committed in Prince George's County this year at a rate of two a week, and there already have been 13 more homicides in the county than there were all last year, according to police department statistics.

Eighty-four people have been killed in the county this year, compared with 63 in the same period last year. But there have been few arrests, according to press statements and department statistics.

Officials have announced the arrests of 12 individuals in a total of nine homicides. A department spokeswoman said a current arrest figure was not available.

The county's most recent homicide occurred Friday night, when a 35-year-old man was shot just steps from where others were pumping gas at a Temple Hills Shell service station across the street from the Naylor Road Metro station, police said.

Cpl. Diane Richardson, a spokeswoman for the department, said witnesses told the responding officers that the victim, identified as Kerwin Nigel Morse, of the 3400 block of Weltham Street in Temple Hills, was standing near a dumpster with two other men about 11 p.m. when he was shot once. Witnesses said the gunman may have fled in a car. Morse was pronounced dead at Greater Southeast Community Hospital a short time later, Richardson said.

Richardson said police have investigated seven armed robberies on the gas station property since April. None of the robberies has been of the service station, where a bulletproof partition separates customers from employees and the door facing the tiny parking lot is always locked.

The robbery suppression team of the Oxon Hill Police District, which includes the Shell station in the 3300 block of Naylor Road, has set up surveillance at the station, Richardson said, but because of the sporadic nature of robberies, there have been no arrests.

Neighbors have complained of drug dealing at the service station, and police said they are investigating those allegations.

As of yesterday, detectives had established neither a motive nor a suspect in Morse's death, but they were searching for two white cars that witnesses said sped from the parking lot immediately after the shooting. They ask that anyone with information about the incident call the department's Crime Solvers at 301-735-1111.

The owner of the Shell station said yesterday that he is concerned about the many drive-by shootings and armed robberies that have taken place on or near the premises, including one three weeks ago, when a man pumping gas was robbed of $80.

"We try to do what we can to keep that away from here, but it just happens," said Dennis Pariseau, the owner. "We just have to be alert."

The Shell station is about an eighth of a mile from the Naylor Road Metro stop and is around the block from the six-lane, heavily traveled Branch Avenue. Tucked between two seemingly deserted grassy areas and across the street from the Crab Cafe, the gas station appears to attract loiterers, said one resident who lives behind the establishment.

Jeff Lyle said his wife worked at the station until the evening he witnessed the man being robbed of $80. It happened about 7 p.m. three weeks ago, when he and his daughter walked to the station from their nearby apartment to visit his wife, he said.

"What I saw made me stop in my steps," he said. "There was a guy with a gun holding a man hostage at the pump and took him for all his cash. I talked to him after the guy fled, and he was shaken up and angry."

Lyle said he worries about families who live within steps of the gas station.

"Kids go there to buy candy, and people stop to get gas on their way to and from the Metro station," he said. "People should just really be aware, because you never know [what will] happen."

Staff researcher Bobbye Pratt contributed to this report.

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Temple Hills man found murdered
Gazette, Oct. 26, 2001
- Greg Johnson

Police have identified the Temple Hills man found shot to death Friday on Naylor Road.

Kerwin Nigel Morse, 35, of the 3400 block of Weltham Street, was found lying on the ground in the 3500 block of Naylor Road suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital were he was pronounced dead.

Police said they have not suspects or motives in the shooting.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Prince George's County Crime Solvers unit at 301-735-1111 or 1-800-673-2777.

Andover Place, 3400 block, theft, 1:52 pm

Andover Place, 3400 block, robbery, 1:08 pm

Weltham Street, 3419, home sale reported

WELTHAM ST ., 3419-Laura D. Katsiftis to Erica J. Tolson and Ramonz A. Height, $142,900. 

Bonita Street, 3408, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3408-Veronica and Aurelio Crisafulli to Erica Johnson, $144,500.

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft, 8:35 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft, 1:18 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 6:08 am

Andover Place, 3400 block, residential break-in, 1:47 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, theft, 8:45 am

Scottish Avenue and Curtis Drive, theft, 5:23 pm

Andover Place & Old Silver Hill Road, arrest in connection with a theft, 1:14 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, robbery, 11:37 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, theft or break-in, 3:22 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, theft or break-in, 2:59 pm

Ralph Allister Gray, 3200 Lassie Avenue

JAMAICAN GANGS WAGE WAR OVER DRUGS, AREA POLICE SAY - SIX SLAYINGS CARRIED OUT IN LAST WEEK
Washington Post - Thursday, November 19, 1987
Author: Linda Wheeler ; Keith Harriston , Washington Post Staff Writers

Six men have been shot to death in the last week in adjoining District neighborhoods and in two disparate sections of Prince George's County in what police call a deadly drug war involving Jamaican gangs that have muscled their way into lucrative Washington area markets.
...
Prince George's County police are also connecting 9 mm weapons with posse activities. On Nov. 6, Ralph Allister Gray, 32, described by police as a Jamaican drug distributor, was shot and stabbed several times near his apartment at 3200 Lassie Ave ., Temple Hills. In his apartment police found two 9 mm semiautomatic handguns, a revolver and a empty case for an Uzi submachine gun.
...

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, homicide

80TH SLAYING NEARS RECORD IN PR. GEORGE'S
Washington Post - Saturday, November 7, 1987

An indentified man was shot and killed late Thursday in Temple Hills, bringing the total number of homicides in Prince George's County to 80 so far this year, county police said.

The unidentified victim, a man in his early thirties, was listed by police as a "John Doe."

Police said that residents of the 3200 block of Lassie Avenue reported hearing gunshots at 11:46 p.m., looked out their windows and saw a man lying in the street.

The police homicide division is investigating the case, but a spokesman said yesterday that there are no suspects.

A new yearly milestone for the number of homicides almost certainly will be established this year in the 487-square-mile county.

A record 86 homicides were committed in the county in 1982.

According to Cpl. Bruce Gentile, a police spokesman, a majority of the slayings in the county are committed inside the Capital Beltway in the high-density population areas

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Gustavius Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, Lassie Avenue, indicted

2 Indicted on Murder Charges
Washington Post, The (DC) - Tuesday, January 11, 1983
Author: From news services and staff reports

Two 17-year-old cousins have been indicted on charges of murdering a 19-year-old Prince George's County woman last month. Prosecutors said that Gustavius Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, of Lassie Avenue , Suitland, and Sylvester Lee Brooks, of S Street in Southeast Washington, are accused of striking Patty L. Alston with an auto in a field behind Walker Mill Junior High School in District Heights last Dec. 8.
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Gustavous Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, Lassie Avenue, indicted

Youths Charged in Murder of Witness, 19
Washington Post, The (DC) - Saturday, December 11, 1982
Author: Sandra R. Gregg, Washington Post Staff Writer

Police in Prince George's County and the District arrested two 17-year-old youths Thursday night and charged them as adults with first-degree murder in the death of Patty L. Alston, the 19-year-old Capitol Heights woman found dead Thursday morning behind a District Heights junior high school.

Alston was killed one day before she was to testify as a key witness in an armed robbery trial, circuit court officials in Upper Marlboro said, and the case has been dropped.

Investigators said, however, that they could not make a positive link between the trial and Alston's death.

Interviews with Alston's relatives and friends led Prince George's homicide detectives to arrest Gustavous Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, who lives in the 3100 block of Lassie Avenue in Suitland.

Brooks is being held in the county detention center in Upper Marlboro without bond.

County police also had a warrant for Brooks' cousin, Sylvester Lee Brooks, of the 1700 block of S Street SE, and D.C. police arrested Sylvester Brooks later on Thursday.

He is being held at the D.C. jail pending extradition to Maryland.

Alston's body was found by a student early Thursday morning in a playing field in the rear of Walker Mill Junior High School.

An autopsy by the state medical examiner in Baltimore revealed that Alston died of injuries received when she was struck and run over by a car.

Alston, the mother of an infant son, lived at 915 Brooke Rd. in Capitol Heights with her mother and brother, police said.

She was a senior at Suitland High School as was Gustavous Brooks, police said.

Alston was to have been the star witness in the armed robbery trial of Eddie M. Shackleford that was to have begun yesterday morning, according to county prosecutor R. William Hale.

Hale said that Alston had been working at the Rustler's Steak House on Silver Hill Road in Suitland on the night of Aug. 8, 1981, when the restaurant's manager was robbed.

Alston was the only person who could positively identify Shackleford and another man who had come into the restaurant together the night of the robbery, Hale said.

Prosecutor Hale said that yesterday was the last day that Shackleford could be tried under the state's speedy trial law.

In the face of Alston's death and the lack of other witnesses, Hale said that the case against Shackleford was dropped. Shackleford is serving a 12-to-36 year sentence in the District on other robbery charges, he added.
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Horatio Lee Brooks, 3108 Lassie Avenue, murdered

Suitland Man Slain, Youth Charged
Washington Post, The (DC) - Friday, August 1, 1980

An 18-year-old Suitland man was found shot to death in a parking lot at Washington Highland Elementary School in Southeast Washington late Wednesday night, D.C. police reported.

Police yesterday morning charged a 17-year-old Oxon Run youth with murder in connection with the slaying.

The victim, Horatio Lee Brooks of 3108 Lassie Ave ., allegedly met with five other persons, including the suspect, about 11 p.m. Wednesday behind the school at Eighth and Yuma streets SE.After a fistfight broke out, Brooks was shot in the head and chest, police said.

Brooks was pronounced dead at D.C. General Hospital at 1 a.m. yesterday. No one else was injured in the incident.

Police said they have not determined a motive for the shooting.
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