Court records show Randolph Thomas, Jr. pleaded guilty to killing another man on the same day that Emmanuel Durant, Jr. was fatally shot.
D.C. police on Wednesday announced an arrest in the 2009 killing of Emmanuel Durant Jr., a 19-year-old whose life and death became the subject of adocumentary for showing the systemic factors behind the struggles of a family that lived just 17 blocks from the U.S. Capitol.
Randolph Thomas Jr., 40, of Southeast D.C., has been charged with first-degree murder in Durant’s death. Court records show he pleaded guilty in 2014 In a text message, Thomas’s attorney Todd Baldwin said, “We are looking forward to having his day in court and will ask for everyone’s patience to allow the criminal justice system to work its course.”Durant was shot inside a residence in the 200 block of Webster Street NE on New Year’s Eve in 2009.
In a separate case, Thomas pleaded guilty to shooting Chardale Bowe twice in the head while sitting in a car in the 4800 block of North Capitol Street NE on Dec. 31, 2009.
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