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By
D.C. Witness Staff
- June 19, 2018
Court
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Homicides
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Post Disposition
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Suspects
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Darrel Hendy was shot to death in 2010.
After witnesses failed to show at a post disposition hearing, a DC Superior Court judge postponed the hearing until September. The witnesses were subpoenaed by the defense to testify that a convicted murderer was not the shooter.
Even though, Chamontae Walker was sentenced to 40 years for the first-degree murder of Darrel Hendy, Walker, 40, still insists that he is innocent. According to the defense, several witnesses said Walker did not shoot Hendy, 29. The incident happened in 2010 on the 800 block of Southern Avenue, SE.
Only one of three witnesses went to the hearing. The one witness who did go was already in custody for a probation violation when summoned.
The witness repeatedly stated that he knew Walker didn’t shoot Hendy. “When the shooting rang out we all ran inside the apartments,” he said. According to the prosecution, Walker was convicted of the murder because he provided the murder weapon.
Counsel was initially given time to locate witnesses that were in the vicinity of the murder after a post disposition hearing in April. DC Superior Court Judge Thomas Motley refused to allow the defense to put convicted murderer Meeko Carraway on the stand. Carraway pled guilty to Hendy’s murder in 2011. He is currently serving a 25-year sentence at Lee County Industrial Park, a U.S. penitentiary in Virginia.
Walker’s hearing is scheduled for Sept. 26. The defense expects to hold a video conference with a witness, who is currently in custody in Prince George’s County, Md., at the hearing.