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Defense Requests Preliminary Hearing for Murder Case

A DC Superior Court judge scheduled a preliminary hearing for a first-degree murder case. 

Knico Wheaton was arrested on April 28 for the murder of 41-year-old Tavon Cox, which occurred on Jan. 11 on the 700 block of 24th Street, NE.

Defense attorney David Richter requested a preliminary hearing in order to review the evidence, which Jude Todd Edelman accepted.

That hearing is scheduled for Sept. 21.

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