Arrest in double DC homicide made

File - D.C. police cars on Memorial Day weekend.(WTOP/Dave Dildine)

WASHINGTON — A Northeast man is charged with with the premeditated murders of two men shot to death in D.C. eight months ago.

Members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force on Saturday arrested Alphonso Walker, 41. He’s charged with two counts of first-degree murder while armed.

The two men who died April 25 in a home in the 400 block of 61st Street, Northeast, are identified as 23-year-old Dalonte Wilson of Northeast and 44-year-old Antone Brown of Capitol Heights, Maryland.

Colleen Kelleher

Colleen Kelleher is an award-winning journalist who has been with WTOP since 1996. Kelleher joined WTOP as the afternoon radio writer and night and weekend editor and made the move to WTOP.com in 2001. Now she works early mornings as the site's Senior Digital Editor.

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