Metro Briefs

DISTRICT

Deacon sentenced for sexual assault

A church deacon from Capitol Heights has been sentenced for sexually assaulting a prostitute at gunpoint, federal prosecutors said.

Colin Hatch, 23, was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison. He was convicted July 21 of weapons and sexual abuse charges.

He picked up a prostitute in November in downtown Washington and agreed to pay her for sex, prosecutors said.

When the woman asked for payment first, he pulled a gun and sexually assaulted her.

After Hatch let the prostitute go, prosecutors said she called police after seeing him in the same area where he picked her up. Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested Hatch a few blocks from his home.

MARYLAND

WALDORF

Teen, stepfather found dead in home

A young woman and her stepfather are dead in what police said appears to be a murder-suicide.

Jessica Murray, 18, was found fatally shot in the bathroom of the family home in Waldorf. Her stepfather, Christopher Murray, 39, turned the weapon on himself, police said. He was found in the kitchen with a shotgun at his side.

Police have not determined a motive.

BALTIMORE

Man’s body found floating in harbor

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