EMT testifies to housing murder suspect

By D.C. Witness Staff - February 27, 2018
Court | Homicides | Suspects |

The ex-girlfriend of Maricco Knight, who is the emergency medical technician that treated Marcellus Green, testified Feb. 26 to housing Green’s alleged shooter Dominique Williams before his arrest.

The ex-girlfriend said it was a coincidence that she treated Green, 39, on the night of Sept. 19, 2015, mentioning that the scene on the 3200 block of 28th Street, SE was “unforgettable” because of Green’s bloody wounds. Green succumbed to his injuries. He was not the intended target.

The ex-girlfriend said she saw a social media positing that showed Knight and Steven Pugh being arrested for the homicide after a car chase on the same night.

When the ex-girlfriend called Knight, to inquire about the arrest, she said he told her the police were “trying to hit him with a body.” According to the ex-girlfriend, Knight said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The ex-girlfriend and Knight began living together in May of 2016.

On the morning of July 21, 2016, Knight’s ex-girlfriend said she had shoulder surgery scheduled and asked Williams, who was staying with her and Knight at the time, if he could put her 6-year-old daughter on the school bus.

While Knight and his ex-girlfriend drove to the hospital that morning, she said she received a call from a detective telling her to pick up her daughter because Williams had been arrested for murder. She said Knight told her the police arrested Williams for the same homicide that he and Pugh had been arrested for.

Knight is charged with accessory to murder while armed and Williams is charged with first-degree murder while armed. Pugh took a plea deal for the homicide.

The trial is expected to continue on Feb. 27.