Progress on Water St. Crime, Murder Suspect Named

“The MPD and the National Park Police are making progress at preventing and solving night crimes under and around the Key Bridge,” reported Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Lisa Palmer at the special ANC 2E meeting held Aug. 9. About 20 people attended.

“Not only are more streetlights being placed in the area, but existing lights are being reviewed for repositioning and other corrections. More police patrols have also been assigned to the area, as well as more surveillance cameras.

“I get camera reports every day from the authorities,” Palmer said. “Hopefully, word is getting out that you can’t get away with low-level crimes in the area.”

In the meantime, a suspect has been named in the double shooting and murder of a 19-year-old man from Severn, Maryland, on Water St. the early morning of July 8. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Demarius Anton Jackson on a charge of second-degree murder while armed, according to reports. He is a suspect in the killing of 19-year-old Kennedy Javier Amaya-Olivares just before 3 a.m.

Officials described Jackson as a 24-year-old black man, 5-foot-10 and 130 pounds. Police consider him armed and dangerous. At press time, there was no word of his arrest.