‘She Got Him Killed,’ Witness Says

By D.C. Witness Staff - May 7, 2019
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During a murder trial, a witness told a jury May 6 that a defendant confessed to having her boyfriend killed.

Carmelita Henderson is charged with first-degree murder while armed for her alleged role in the death of 38-year-old Levi Kinte Davis on the 4200 block of East Capitol Street, NE in 2015. According to court documents, Davis and Henderson, 52, were in an intimate relationship.

The witness testified that he had a sexual relationship with Henderson while Davis was in jail. The witness said he stopped sleeping with Henderson after Davis was released but still spoke with her regularly.

The witness said he ran into Henderson one day and asked her why she hadn’t been answering her phone. The witness said she told him that police had her phone and then told him about the murder.

“She said she got him killed,” the witness said. “He got her fired. She said she wanted to kill him.”

D.C. Witness previously reported that Henderson was fired from her job in the DC Jail’s mailroom because of her intimate relationship with Davis, who was incarcerated at the jail.

According to the witness, Henderson said she was in the parking lot of her apartment complex with Davis when two of her friends came up to her car and shot him. Henderson said she wanted him killed in her car so it would seem “less suspicious.”

The witness told the jury he was not forthcoming about the information at first because he wanted to use it as an “ace in the hole” in case he got arrested, again.

According to court documents, Davis was shot while inside Henderson’s vehicle by two suspects. A witness said Henderson was outside the vehicle at the time of the murder and seemed “calm” after the shooting. Prosecutors believe that Henderson orchestrated the shooting and convinced two men to kill Davis.