On Thursday, May 8, 1997, at approximately 10:15 am, Metropolitan Police and DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel responded to an apartment building under renovation in the 700 block of Princeton Place, NW, to investigate the report of an unconscious person. Upon arrival, they found the body of Lateasha Blocker, which workers there located beneath floorboards. Emergency Medical Technicians could find no signs of life.
The case was investigated from the start as a homicide. On November 20, 1997, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia determined the cause of death to be asphyxiation.
This nine-and-a-half-year-old homicide case was closed on Monday, November 20, 2006, with the arrest of 36-year-old Douglas Andrew Bolman, of the 2200 block of Senator Avenue in District Heights, Maryland. He was charged with Murder Two.