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Ariana Rojas [former]
- April 5, 2022
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A plea offer is on the table for a defendant charged with second-degree murder while armed for a deadly stabbing in a commercial area of the Carver-Langston neighborhood.
Byron Brooks is accused of stabbing 43-year-old Kareem Watkins to death during the early hours of May 11, 2021. Watkins was found on the 1500 block of Maryland Avenue, NE, with a puncture wound to the left side of his chest. Brooks, 36, was apprehended in Georgia less than a month later.
During the defendant’s most recent hearing on April 4, a plea offer involving the same charge of second-degree murder while armed was brought up again.
Brooks’s defense attorney, Roderick Thompson, said there was very little discovery evidence shared since the preliminary hearing. Both parties asked for a status hearing in six weeks to gather the information and for the defense to make a final decision on the offer.
Parties are scheduled to reconvene on May 19.
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