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By
D.C. Witness Staff
- January 23, 2018
Court
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Homicides
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Suspects
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A trial has been set on July 9, 2018, for a man accused of fatally shooting a 46-year-old FBI janitor in March of 2016.
Kelby Gordon has been charged with the second-degree murder of Gabriel Turner. A trial readiness hearing was set for June 22; Turner’s trial is expected to commence three weeks after.
Turner, 46, was the victim of a bullet that was intended for someone else, according to reports from the Metropolitan Police Department that say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Detectives recovered surveillance footage that shows an unidentified man walking behind Turner. The video shows Gordon, age 29 at the time, shooting in the direction of the unidentified man. The altercation occurred on the 2600 block of Birney Road, SE.
According to Gordon’s attorney, Richard Holliday, Gordon is “anxious to have the situation resolved.”
Holliday stated that Gordon has more issues to raise but not without Lindsay Merikas, the prosecution attorney, present. She is scheduled to be present at Gordon’s trial readiness hearing.