Police: Suspect arrested in D.C. quadruple homicide

[Crabby Appleton]

Source: USA Today

A suspect charged in the killing of three family members and a housekeeper last week in a $4.5 million mansion in Washington, D.C., was taken into custody late Thursday, police said.

Daron Dylon Wint, age 34, of Maryland was taken into custody in Northeast D.C., Chief Cathy Lanier confirmed.

Wint was named in an arrest warrant charging him with first-degree murder while armed.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/21/quadruple-homicide-dc-suspect/27715321/

[MicaelS]

1. Excellent.

This guy should get the maximum penalty under the law.

[Anansi1171]

2. Indeed. Thats two death sentences for the four lives he took.

We need a cure for sociopathy.

[elleng]

3. Death sentence doesn't exactly CURE sociopathy,

and it's no longer available in DC.

[MicaelS]

6. Life Without Parole in a Maximum Security Facility...

Is what he should receive, IMO. I have not the slightest shred of empathy or compassion for someone who would torture and murder four people, including a child. There is no excuse for his crimes. none.

[elleng]

9. I agree.

[SoapBox]

4. We heard about his past record.

This guy is scum.

[Lint Head]

5. Whatever the penalty for this cretin is just get me alone with him in a dark alley and I'll inform

him about torture of a child.

[romanic]

7. Good.

The scumbag has a long rap sheet and should have never been out in society in the first place. I hope gets life and rots in the pen.

[cosmicone]

8. If burning alive were legal, that guy deserves it

but life without parole will be close.

[DustyJoe]

10. #kidslivesmatter /nt

[rocktivity]

11. (D)etectives allegedly found his DNA on a leftover pizza crust at the home

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(Wint) ordered Domino's Pizza while he allegedly held the family and their housekeeper hostage overnight...

That suggests that his DNA is on file, which in turn suggests that Wint must have had a previous record.

...(I)nvestigators believe Wint, a certified welder, once worked for American Ironworks, the company that Savopoulos founded.

The video says Wint worked there "back in 2005." Ten years later, he suddenly needs $40K so desperately he resorts to home invasions and mass murder? Can't wait to hear why he was fired...

ON EDIT (New York Daily News): The 5-foot-7, 155-pound (Wint) has been in trouble with the law before, with arrests ranging from assault, domestic violence, theft and alcohol violations, according to court records...

(B)orn in Guyana, he immigrated to the United States 15 years ago and joined the Marine Corps...He received an honorable discharge for medical reasons, but never finished boot camp...(I)n Oswego, NY...between 2006 and 2008, (he) was booked in the county jail on three occasions, but each time the charges against him were dropped...Wint was convicted of second-degree assault in 2009, and pleaded guilty a year later to malicious destruction of property — both times in Maryland.

In 2010, he was arrested outside the American Iron Works headquarters in Maryland with a BB pistol and a 2-foot-long machete, but the weapons charges were dropped when he pleaded guilty to possessing an open container of alcohol...

"He doesn't listen," his stepmother...told ABC News. " (H)e thinks he knows the law...Everywhere he goes there's an argument... very arrogant."...Robin Ficker, a defense attorney who represented Wint for minor criminal and traffic cases, said... "My impression of him — I remember him rather well — is that he wouldn't hurt a fly. He's a very nice person."

rocktivity

[Rebubula]

14. LOL....Robin Ficker

Wow....biggest douche candidate every year since 1984.

Ficker became famous for having seats behind the Visiting team bench during Bullets\Wizards games at the Cap Center (later USAir Arena and then torn down) - he would heckle the visiting team throughout the game. He is a complete jackass - I have some long standing personal ties with him...so I can attest he is a jerk in real life and on paper.

This sounds like a very inside job - someone knew the victim was getting a large sun of money and let this piece of human garbage in on the secret.

[Eleanors38]

20. "(H)e thinks he knows the law." Judging from his enablement, yeah he does.

[bigworld]

12. I only hope that DC is this thorough with every murder investigation

Glad they got him.

[Rebubula]

15. When a family is totured and murdered...

...you can bet any department will throw the entire weight of the force behind the investigation.

However, not every murder is this gruesome...it is understandable that they would deem this one especially egregious and look to close quickly.

[elleng]

16. More than DC police,

MD officers, and US Marshall's service was involved. Remember, the guy went to Brooklyn before returning to DC.

[elleng]

13. I just learned that my son in law,

a deputy sheriff in MD and member of US Marshall's service, was among the officers searching for this guy. I don't know how close he was to the find, but did learn that he hasn't seen much of the family, or slept, recently, due to this effort.

[Kingofalldems]

17. Robin Ficker was his attorney.

And says he is just the greatest.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/05/21/erin-robin-ficker-daron-wint.cnn

Anyone who knows of Ficker is shaking their head in disbelief.

[Rebubula]

18. Ficker

He is a DC area institution...and should be put in one

[kwassa]

19. good ol' Robin Ficker

one of the more interesting nut cases to enter politics, and the law.

In 1990, Ficker was publicly reprimanded by the Maryland Court of Appeals upon a finding that he had violated ethical rules prohibiting neglect, engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, and lack of diligence. In March, 1998, he was indefinitely suspended from the practice of law, with the right to reapply for admission after 120 days, arising from violations related to competence, diligence, fairness to opposing counsel and parties, supervising lawyers and conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. In August, 1998, he was privately reprimanded by the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission for a violation related to competence. In January, 2002, he was privately reprimanded by the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission for a violation related to client communications. Ficker was again indefinitely suspended from the practice of law in 2007. A dissenting judge in the latest suspension commented, "If disbarment is not warranted in this case for these types of issues, with a respondent with this history, it will never be warranted." Ficker's law license was reinstated on December 8, 2008. Ficker became a real estate broker with his own company, Robin Realty, in 2008.[5]

and his outstanding career as a sports heckler.

Though many players from opposing teams were aware of Ficker,[36] Phoenix Suns star Charles Barkley in particular thought so much of him that he flew him out to Phoenix during the 1993 NBA Finals. Barkley bought Ficker a ticket directly behind the bench of the visiting Chicago Bulls with the intent that Ficker's taunts would distract the Bulls players. Ficker did not last the first quarter before being removed by America West Arena security.[37]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Ficker