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By
D.C. Witness Staff
- January 25, 2021
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A DC Superior Court judge set two new status hearings for a defendant who is accused of fatally shooting a man in Northwest, DC in 2017 and assaulting another victim in 2020.
In addition to first-degree murder while armed, Tavon Davis is charged with obstructing justice, threat to kidnap or injure a person and soliciting murder for his alleged participation in the 2017 death of 29-year-old Michael Vest on the 1300 block of Trinidad Avenue, NE.
DC Superior Court Judge Judith A. Smith presided over the Jan. 25 hearing. Davis, 26, is now scheduled for a new status hearing on March 17.
Judge Smith also set a status hearing for May 19 for Davis’ 2020 case in which he is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.
The assault occurred when Davis allegedly stabbed a fellow inmate at the DC Jail with a homemade knife, according to court documents. The victim sustained “three stab wounds to the right neck and a stab wound to the upper right arm.” The victim survived the attack.
Davis is being held without bail.