DC Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan sentenced a homicide defendant to 26 years in prison on Feb. 13 for strangling his mother to death.
On Nov. 26, 2025 Seth Andrews, 39, was convicted of second-degree murder for strangling his mother, Hazel Evans, 67, in her home on the unit block of 35th Street, NE, on July 16, 2020.
Andrews was also charged with two counts of assault on a police officer and one count of destruction of property less than $1,000 for an altercation he had with Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DC FEMS) on Aug. 20, 2020. According to court documents, Andrews hit a firefighter in the throat, slammed a police officer’s hand in a car door, and broke the windows of a firetruck with a wood palette…