William Barrett, 69, of Mount Holly, was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 25 to 25 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a news release on Monday, Oct. 28. He was arrested in the killing of 36-year-old Romaine Maddox, a resident of the northeast quadrant of D.C.
According to trial evidence, Barrett and Maddox checked into Ivy City Hotel on New York Avenue, Northeast at around 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22. The couple was there to celebrate Maddox’s birthday and surveillance video showed Maddox was “ecstatic” when the two entered their room.
The couple was in the room for several hours before cameras captured Maddox screaming for help from the hotel room at around 2 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 23…