Keith L. Alexander

Washington, D.C.

Crime/courts reporter for @WashingtonPost, co-winner of 2016 @PulitzerPrizes for ground-breaking, national investigation of fatal police shootings. #Bison! HU!!

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Ed Martin’s new federal gun charge plan has 18 cases. All are Black men.

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander

Ed Martin’s new federal gun charge plan has 18 cases. All are Black men. (washingtonpost.com) Ed Martin’s new federal gun charge plan has 18 cases. All are Black men. By Keith L. Alexander 2025040710000000 Police arrested one man after officers alleged they saw a gun fall out of his pocket as he walked away from a liquor store.
Dozens of D.C. police officers targeted in sweeping pandemic fraud probe

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander |Peter Hermann

Dozens of D.C. police officers targeted in sweeping pandemic fraud probe (washingtonpost.com) Dozens of D.C. police officers targeted in sweeping pandemic fraud probe By Keith L.
D.C. police officer’s duties revoked following run-in with authorities

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander |Jasmine Hilton

D.C. police officer’s duties revoked following run-in with authorities (washingtonpost.com) D.C. police officer’s duties revoked following run-in with authorities By Keith L. Alexander; Jasmine Hilton 2025040421094600 A D.C. police officer's duties have been temporarily revoked following a run-in with Maryland law enforcement, a D.C. police spokesman said.
He was dancing on the Metro. A former Secret Service agent assaulted him.

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander

He was dancing on the Metro. A former Secret Service agent assaulted him. (washingtonpost.com) He was dancing on the Metro. A former Secret Service agent assaulted him. By Keith L. Alexander 2025040420010600 Harold Christy felt threatened, he would later tell a judge, after the Green Line street dancers set their boom box next to his feet on a hot July day last year and hit play.
House speaker’s top aide pleads not guilty to drunken-driving charges

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander

House speaker’s top aide pleads not guilty to drunken-driving charges (washingtonpost.com) House speaker’s top aide pleads not guilty to drunken-driving charges By Keith L.
U. S. attorney in D. C. considers withholding police misconduct information

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander |Spencer Hsu

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin said he is “rewriting” rules that require prosecutors to turn over all evidence of police credibility issues in the District to defense attorneys and judges before officers testify, a prospect that many in his office fear could upend cases and land them in legal trouble.
Teen sentenced to a year in connection to fatal shooting ruled self defense

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander

A D.C. Superior Court judge on Thursday sentenced a 17-year-old to a year in the custody of the city’s youth detention center fora firearms conviction related to the 2023 fatal shooting of a woman inside a Southeast Washington carryout. But officials with the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services told Judge Kendra D. Briggs that the department could not accommodate the teen due to needs stemming from the injuries he sustained in the same shooting.
J20 prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens faces misconduct allegations

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander

A federal prosecutor accused of manipulating evidence alongside a D.C. police detective in an apparent attempt to convict anti-Trump demonstrators of rioting in the nation’s capital was overwhelmed by an avalanche of cases brought over widespread disruption pegged to his 2017 inauguration, her lawyers said Tuesday.
D.C. crime scene techs covered up late arrivals nearly 700 times, report finds

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander

D.C.’s independent watchdog found that employees working for the District’s long-troubled forensics lab falsified their arrival times to crime scenes nearly 700 times over a one-year period — a charge experts and observers say presents fresh credibility issues for an agency that must be beyond reproach.
Two teens charged with murder in case of local DJ robbed and left for dead

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander |Olivia George

Two teens arrested this past fall in connection with the brutal beating of a hairstylist and DJ who was robbed and left for dead in Northwest Washington saw their charges upgraded to murder Monday, after authorities ruled the man’s death a homicide. Prosecutors initially charged the teens, now 16 and 17, with robbery, assault and unauthorized use of a vehicle in the death of 39-year-old Bryan Smith. Police said they found Smith unconscious in the 500 block of T Street NW on Oct. 28.