The Metropolitan Police Department has announced that arrests have been made in the homicide of a man who was stabbed to death in the 2700 block of 10th Street, NE early on the morning of Tuesday, December 30, 2008.  Based on the investigation the case was closed later that same day with the arrest of the following four defendants, who have all been charged with Murder II While Armed: 19-year-old Timothy Fitzpatrick of Northeast Washington, DC; 20-year-old Braxton Glover of Suitland, Maryland; 27-year-old Jonathan Capers of no fixed address; and 29-year-old Antoine Hill of no fixed address. 

On Tuesday, December 30, 2008, at approximately 2:30 am, members of the department’s Fifth District responded to the rear of the 2700 block of 10th Street, NE to investigate the trouble. Upon arrival on the scene they located an adult male suffering from apparent multiple stab wounds. The victim, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of his next-of-kin, was transported by personnel from the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department to an area hospital where he succumbed to his injures and was pronounced dead at 3:53 am.