Preliminary Hearing Scheduled for Suspects of 11-year-old’s Murder

By D.C. Witness Staff - August 20, 2020
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A DC Superior Court judge scheduled a preliminary hearing to determine if a murder case has enough has enough evidence to go to trial. 

Co-defendants Carlo General, Christian Wingfield and Daryle Bond are charged with first-degree murder while armed in the death of 11-year-old Davon McNeal on July 4 on the block of 1400 Cedar Street, SE. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) does not believe that McNeal or anyone in his family was a target. 

One suspect, Marcel Gordon, is still wanted.

Defense attorneys Arnold Porter, Jonathan Zucker and Rachel Cicurel asked Judge Robert Okun to reschedule the Aug. 19  hearing so the case judge, Judge Danya Dayson, would be available to preside.

Judge Okun rescheduled the status conference to Sept. 16. He scheduled the preliminary hearing for Sept. 30.

Parties agreed that the continuance was necessary in order to resolve several matters. The defense said that not all evidence the prosecution received had been turned over to them yet.

The prosecution also made a motion to allow the prosecutor to practice in an area in which she is not officially licensed.

However, Judge Okun denied the motion because Judge Dayson was unable to review it. The motion will likely be revisited when Judge Dayson becomes available. 

Parties also wanted a continuance due to a protective order filed against Bond, which the defense plans to oppose. 

Officers arrested Bond, 19, on July 9. The three other suspects were named in an MPD press release that day. Wingfield, 22, was arrested on July 10 and General, 22, was arrested on July 29.