{"id":38448,"date":"2019-01-07T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/07\/a-dc-man-is-dead-and-detectives-think-this-navy-corpsman-stabbed-him\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:00:06","slug":"a-dc-man-is-dead-and-detectives-think-this-navy-corpsman-stabbed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/01\/07\/a-dc-man-is-dead-and-detectives-think-this-navy-corpsman-stabbed-him\/","title":{"rendered":"A DC man is dead and detectives think this Navy corpsman stabbed him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Homicide detectives have arrested a Navy corpsman stationed at Marine Corps Base Quantico and charged him with stabbing to death a District of Columbia businessman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Collin J. Potter, 26, is being held at DC\u2019s Central Detention Facility after being charged with 1st Degree Murder<\/a> while Armed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metropolitan Police Department detectives suspect that he fatally stabbed Vongell Lugo, 36, inside an apartment building along Wisconsin Avenue, Northwest, early Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public records show that Lugo, an associate manager at a local business support firm, lived in an apartment at 2844 Wisconsin Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities said that Second District patrol officers responded to a 4:14 a.m. Sunday trouble call at the residential building and found Lugo inside the hallway, suffering from multiple stab wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services rushed to the scene and \u201cfound the victim displayed no signs consistent with life,\u201d according to a written statement from the Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lugo\u2019s body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\t