Judge Continues Show Cause Hearing for Case of Girl’s Death

By D.C. Witness Staff - September 17, 2019
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A DC Superior Court judge and counsel agreed to continue a murder defendant’s pre-trial show cause hearing Sept. 17. 

Darrise Jeffers is charged with first-degree murder for his alleged involvement in the shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson on the 300 block of 53 Street, NE on July 16, 2018. effers is currently one of eleven other co-defendents on this murder case. These co-defendants include Saquan Williams, Quincy Garvin, Mark Tee Price, Isaiah Murchison, Antonio Murchison, Gregory Taylor, Quanisha Ramsuer, Marquell Cobbs, Qujuan Thomas, and Quentin Michals. Police classified the shooting as a neighborhood rivalry. Wilson was caught in the crossfire as she went to get ice cream.   

Judge Ronna Lee Beck asked Veronice A. Holt, Jeffers’ defense attorney, to be ready to cross-examine the prosecution’s expert witness at the next hearing on Oct. 22 

Counsel will also cross-examine a pretrial service employee about Jeffers’ whereabouts, according to coordinates given by a GPS tracking device.

Holt will also question an expert witness.

Co-defendants Garvin, Williams, Price, Thomas, Michals and Taylor are set to go to trial on Aug. 10, 2020.  Jeffers, Cobbs, Antonio and Isiah are set to go to trial on Jan. 05, 2021.

A jury trial for Ramsuer, who was separated from the other defendants, is scheduled on Feb. 03, 2020.

Jeffers is currently being held without bond for failure to appear in court for a previous hearing.