Jessica Cotham

Jessica Cotham was shot about 7:45 p.m. during a robbery near Dover Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. She was hospitalized and died of her injuries four days later. Cotham, 35, lived in the 5100 block of Pennsylvania. Cotham was sitting in a parked car that night with a 53-year-old man, who was in the driver's seat. A white Volkswagen Passat pulled up and a man wearing a bandana over his face got out of the Passat with a gun. The gunman opened the car door and demanded money, police said. They gave the robber money, and he ordered them to drive away, police said. The gunman fired shots at the car, hitting Cotham in the neck and the driver in the arm. The driver was critically injured.