WASHINGTON — DC Superior Court documents released Tuesday give more details about what Metropolitan Police Department detectives believe led to a 3-year-old’s murder and abuse in Southeast DC.
It took detectives 16 months to formally charge James Edward Crawley, 31, for first-degree murder and cruelty to children for killing and abusing 3-year-old Zy’Onne Forney.
During that time, investigators interviewed the girl’s mother, a witness to the killing, and neighbors who responded when they heard screaming coming from the apartment…