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Article: Baseball Cap Leads to Arrest in 1997 Slaying
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- The Washington Post
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- October 18, 2007
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When a gunman killed D.C. security guard Thurman "Craig" Brown
during a robbery a decade ago, he left a clue to his identity: a
baseball cap that tumbled off his head at the scene.
It took D.C. police 10 years, but this week they said they had
solved the puzzle. On Monday, they arrested John Williams in
Beltsville, saying DNA from the baseball cap led them to charge
Williams with felony murder while armed.
"I never thought they'd catch the man who killed my baby,"
Thomasine Brown, 68, of the District said yesterday as she looked
lovingly at a photograph of her first-born son.
Thurman Brown, 36, was shot four times during a morning robbery
July 17, 1997, at the D.C. Teachers Federal Credit ...