Washington, D.C. – A 29-year-old District of Columbia man, Raymond McCoy, has been sentenced to 420 months (35 years) in prison for the 2004 slaying of 23-year-old Imtiaz Mohammed on Rittenhouse Street, NW, Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today.

McCoy received his sentence earlier today in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia before Chief Judge Rufus G. King III, who ordered that the 35-year prison term run consecutive to another sentence McCoy is currently serving for a previous murder conviction. In this case, McCoy was found guilty in May 2008, by a Superior Court jury of First Degree Premeditated Murder while Armed and related firearms charges for the Imtiaz Mohammed murder.

According to the government’s evidence, McCoy, who used the nick-name of “Moe,” frequented the Rittenhouse Street neighborhood. McCoy testified that he shot 23-year-old Imtiaz Mohammed because he thought the decedent was going to kill him over a drug debt. The jury heard evidence that McCoy shot Imtiaz Mohammed five times with a .45 caliber pistol. The murder weapon was recovered in June of 2005, after McCoy was stopped by the police, two hours after McCoy shot and killed Kenzell Durham in Northeast Washington. McCoy was convicted of Second Degree Murder while Armed for that murder on November 9, 2006.

In announcing today’s sentence, U.S. Attorney Taylor commended the tenacity and perseverance of MPD Major Case/Cold Case Detectives Darryl Richmond, Mitchell Credle, Dwayne Partman and Carlos Hilliard for working diligently and deliberately in investigating this case. He also commended Officer Dioni Fernandez and the work of Timothy Linder, Kimberley Smith and Errol Spears of the Litigation Support Services Unit; Maretta L. Forrest of the Victim Witness Assistance Unit; as well as Paralegal Lenney Lowe, who fully supported this case. Finally, he commended Assistant U.S. Attorneys Deborah Sines and Jocelyn Ballantine, who prosecuted this case.