Murder Trial Witness Admits to Lying

By D.C. Witness Staff - June 26, 2018
Court | Homicides | Suspects |

During a murder trial, a witness admitted to lying to the police and prosecutors about a stabbing in Northeast DC.

An eyewitness supposedly told officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and prosecutors that she saw three men attack Lenard Wills on the 700 block of 24th Street, NE in 2015. Joseph Barbour,38; Willie Glover, 40; and Charles McRae, 66, are charged with first-degree murder for their alleged involvement in Wills’ death.

“I didn’t see anything. I was in the bedroom,” the witness told Barbour’s attorney. The witness said she lied to police when she said she could see a man hitting Wills, 50. During earlier testimony, the witness said she saw the robbery unfold through a slightly-ajar bedroom door.

The witness said that smoking crack and snorting heroin damaged her memory. She said she smoked crack on the night of the incident.

The trial is scheduled to resume on June 26.