CURRENT EVENTS

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Current Events

Case of Teen's Death

A 23-year-old Potomac Landing Elementary school teacher was acquitted of murder charges yesterday in the slaying of a teen-ager who was gunned down earlier this year in Temple Hills.

With a Bible by his side, Andre Bernard James embraced his attorney, James Papirmeister, after jurors deliberated less than 90 minutes and declared him not guilty of first- and second-degree murder in the Jan. 14 shooting of Derrick Tyrone Boyd, 18, of Temple Hills.

Both James and his father, the Rev. Eugene James of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Washington, appeared to have tears in their eyes when ...