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By
Isabella Quink [former]
- May 4, 2023
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Shooting
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As a double homicide trial continued before DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt, on May 3, an eyewitness testified about receiving an emotional phone call from inside the house where the killings took place.
Alphonso Walker, 45, is being charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection to the death of Dalonte Wilson, 23, and Antone Brown, 44, near the 400 block of 61 Street, NE on April 25, 2018. Walker has been held in the DC Jail since December of 2018.
The witness testified he was outside of the house in a car around the time a shooting occurred. However, he did not hear gunshots because he was playing loud music.
Later, he received a phone call from someone inside asking if he saw a man in a black sweatsuit leave the house.
The witness replied that a person matching that description had just walked by, and the prosecution alleges that was Alphonso Walker, the shooter.
The man inside the house told the witness he was hiding in the closet, and sounded panicky.
“I think that N*** just killed both of them (Wilson and Brown) in the living room,” he said.
The trial is slated to resume May 8.