A jury acquitted a defendant of a 2023 fatal stabbing before DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson on Aug. 5.
Rayvon Slye, 34, was charged with second-degree murder while armed for his alleged involvement in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, 30-year-old Andrea Bond, on March 7, 2023 on the 1000 block of D Street, NE. Bond suffered one stab wound to her upper left chest.
According to court documents, Slye and Bond had reportedly been physically violent with each other on multiple occasions. The couple shared an infant child, whom they were not in custody of at the time of Bond’s death.
After less than two days of deliberations, the jury returned a not guilty verdict on the sole charge.
Throughout the trial, which began on July 21, the prosecution alleged that Slye killed Bond in the morning of March 7, 2023 and then reportedly laid next to her until she was discovered unresponsive in the afternoon.
The prosecutors used phone call evidence and witness testimony to demonstrate Slye’s reported history of violence against Bond. They claimed the jury could use Slye’s past to infer about his actions on the night of Bond’s death.
Slye’s attorneys, Kevin Mosley and Kayla Wyatt, argued that Bond was fatally stabbed in a fight with an unidentified woman in the Trinidad neighborhood on the night of March 6, 2023.
Mosley emphasized the prosecutors lack of physical evidence, including that “not a single drop of blood” was found at the scene where prosecutors alleged Slye stabbed Bond.
The case was closed, no further dates were set, and Slye’s release was ordered from the DC Jail.
