Police kill carjacking suspect

Police shot and killed a carjacking suspect after he led them on a chase through D.C. into Pr. George’s County and held a teenager hostage, authorities said. The suspect was on a bicycle when he approached a woman driving a black BMW on the 1700 block of Columbia Heights Northwest, police said. An hour later, police spotted the car and chased it into Prince George’s, where it crashed. The man then pointed a weapon at a teen’s head, police said. Police from Prince George’s and D.C. fired their weapons. The suspect was taken to an area hospital and pronounced dead. – Scott McCabe

Fairfax police investigate Kingstowne double shooting

Fairfax County police are investigating the deaths of two men found in Kingstowne on Wednesday night. Shortly after 10:30 p.m., officers responded to sound of gunshots on Brindle Heath Way and found the body of an adult male on a second-floor apartment landing with a gunshot wound to his upper body. Police were then led to an apartment occupied by a suspect, which they entered to find the body of another adult male “with an apparent gunshot wound to the upper torso,” according to a news release. Further details will be released upon completion of autopsies. – William C. Flook

Alexandria jury sentences District man to death

A U.S. District Court jury in Alexandria Thursday handed down the court’s first death sentence since capital punishment was reinstated nearly 20 years ago. Thomas Morocco Hager, 34, of the District, was convicted of stabbing a Fairfax County woman to death 14 years ago, according to the federal prosecutor’s statement. Hager and two accomplices repeatedly stabbed Barbara White in her apartment on Nov. 27, 1993, because of a violent confrontation Hager instigated with a rival drug gang, according to the statement. The accomplices, Lonnie Barnett and Arlington Johnson Jr., were sentenced to life in prison last year. – Maria Hegstad