Prosecutors played footage before DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson on July 23 of a fatal stabbing defendant’s interview with detectives from the day of the incident.
Rayvon Slye, 34, is charged with second-degree murder while armed for his alleged involvement in the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old Andrea Bond on March 7, 2023, on the 1100 block of D Street, NE. Bond sustained one stab wound to her chest.
According to court documents and witness testimony, Slye and Bond were in a romantic relationship and had an infant together at the time of the murder. Court documents also allege that the couple was physically violent with each other on multiple occasions.
In court, the prosecution called a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) homicide detective, who conducted an interview with Slye at the homicide branch on the evening of the incident. The detective testified that at the time of the interview, Slye had not been designated as a suspect nor had Bond’s death been classified as a homicide.
In video footage of the interview, Slye reported that he met up with Bond the night prior to her death in the Trinidad neighborhood. He reported that it appeared Bond had been drinking and she told him she got into a fight with another woman, resulting in an injury.
Slye noted in the video that Bond was wearing a white jacket and a green shirt, both of which had blood on them when he picked her up. He added that later in the evening, he reportedly placed two Band-Aids on Bond’s chest wound.
On cross-examination from Slye’s other attorney, Kevin Mosley, the detective confirmed that when Slye was left alone in the room, video footage captured him saying to himself that he would not have a wife after Bond’s death. The detective also agreed in her testimony that Slye was reportedly the only one to call 911 and the only non-medical personnel to perform CPR on Bond.
The detective described Slye as “cooperative” throughout the interview.
After the detective’s testimony, prosecutors played about 90 minutes of the footage from the same interview of Slye, including portions the jury had already seen. During the interview, Slye claimed to the detectives that he had met up with Bond in the Trinidad neighborhood the day before, and she already had the stab wound.
In the video, Slye claimed to a detective that Bond had started speaking to him at 8:00 a.m., but he could not discern what she said.
After the interview, Slye sat alone, talking to himself about the loss of his loved ones and contemplated if he should “drink [his] life away.” In the video, Slye repeatedly stated “I don’t know what to do.”
At one point, Slye said in the video “I should have just called” 911 immediately after he noticed Bond was stabbed. Slye had told detectives earlier in the video that Bond adamantly told him not to call 911 when he met her in the Trinidad neighborhood.
The prosecution also called Bond’s cousin’s then-girlfriend, an eyewitness, to testify about the events on the night of March 6 through March 7, 2023.
When questioned by prosecutors, the eyewitness claimed that she had met Bond before, but “didn’t know her.” She also alleged that she had never seen the person Bond was dating.
The eyewitness said that she slept at Bond’s home the night prior to her death, then left for a doctor’s appointment the next morning. In contrast to her previous statement, the eyewitness claimed that when she was returning to the home, the person she knew as Bond’s boyfriend was walking toward it.
In addition, the eyewitness stated that she let Bond into the home on the night of March 6, they engaged in a brief conversation, and she saw Bond walking towards the living room.
During questioning from the prosecution, the eyewitness initially claimed that she did not see Bond enter the living room. She confirmed this again during questioning by Slye’s attorney, Kayla Wyatt. However, the eyewitness later stated to the prosecution that she thought Bond went to the couch farthest from the living room’s entrance and grabbed blankets to “lay low” on the couch.
Furthermore, Wyatt pointed out discrepancies in the times certain events occurred in the eyewitness’ story compared to how she described them in her grand jury testimony. In one instance, the eyewitness claimed that she let Bond into the house and spoke with her around 9 p.m. then later agreed this happened around midnight.
Parties are scheduled to continue with Slye’s trial on July 27.
