Preliminary Hearing Continues for Suspected Child Killer

By D.C. Witness Staff - June 7, 2018
Court | Homicides | Suspects |

A District of Columbia Superior Court Judge continued June 6 the preliminary hearing for a murder defendant accused of beating a 1-year-old boy to death. The hearing was continued to give the defense more time to review evidence and a plea deal.

Brian Wooden is charged with first-degree murder while armed for allegedly killing his girlfriend’s son, Carter Sanders, on the 4700 block of Benning Rd., SE on May 16. The boy’s injuries included a fractured skull, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver, according to court documents. 

The plea deal would reduce Wooden’s charge to second-degree murder.

Wooden, 28, was apparently caring for the boy at the time of the murder.

As of June 6, Sanders death is the second murder of a child who was 2-years-old or younger in DC in 2018.