Security News in Brief: District Man Sentenced to 40-Year Prison Term for Killing Man in the Parking Lot of Recreation Center

Source: United States Department of Justice News

WASHINGTON – Herman Cook, 50, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 40 years in prison on first-degree murder while armed and other charges for an early evening shooting in Northwest Washington in August 2016, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).