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By
Amanda Parks
- March 11, 2025
Daily Stories
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Non-Fatal Shooting
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Suspects
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A testifying witness told a shooting defendant not to “stare at [her],” to “get out of [her] face.” That prompted DC Superior Court Judge Deborah Israel to remind the witness to remain professional in the courtroom on March 6, but the witness responded she knows when someone is looking at her “with a hostile look.”
Diamond Early, 32, is charged with assault with significant bodily injury while armed, assault with a dangerous weapon, simple assault, two counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, carrying a pistol without a license, possession of an unregistered firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition for her alleged involvement in a non-fatal shooting that left one victim injured in the leg on July 31, 2023 on the 4000 block of Kansas Avenue, NW.
As an eyewitness to the shooting, the victim’s sister testified she and her sister confronted Early after hearing that she may have “put her hands on three of the kids” while she and the victim were at a grocery store nearby.
After confronting Early about hitting the children, the victim’s sister testified that Early laughed the situation off “like it was all a joke.” After that, she claimed that Early pulled out a gun and shot her sister in the leg.
After the witness got off the stand, the prosecution displayed security footage for the jury that depicted several children running, some screams, and inaudible conversations.
Parties are slated to reconvene March 10.