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D.C. Police Charge Man with Murder, Attempted Murder

posted 2:22 pm Mon September 17, 2007 - Washington

tags: arrest • murder • attempted murder • cardova

ABC 7 News - D.C. Police Charge Man with Murder, Attempted Murder

D.C. police have arrested William Cardova in connection with a June 1 shooting outside Bruce Monroe Elementary School in Northwest.

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D.C. Police have charged a North Carolina man in connection with two shootings in the Columbia Heights area that took place nearly six weeks apart earlier this year. Twenty-three-year-old William Cardova of Greensboro, N.C. was arrested and charged with the murder of Edwin Ventura and the attempted murder of a woman standing at a bus stop on Georgia Avenue near Bruce Monroe Elementary School.

Ventura was gunned down while he was talking with friends at the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Columbia Road on April 22. The 18-year-old was supposed to graduate from Bell Multicultural High School in just two months.

According to the police report, the group was approached by two men in dark clothing about 12:35 a.m. At least one of the men pulled a gun and opened fire, fatally wounding Ventura. Another 18-year-old was wounded and survived.

Nearly six weeks later, at 8:50 a.m. on June 1, a Latino woman was waiting at a bus stop in the 3000 block of Georgia Avenue when a lone man approached her and shot her in the head. The gunman reportedly escaped on a bicycle.

The victim was rushed to Howard University Hospital where she was treated.

Cordova was arrested in Greensboro, N.C. by U.S. Marshals and transported to the district where he is being held.

D.C. police offered no information on possible motives for the shootings.

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