In a tragic and startling turn of events, a 22-year-old woman, Kayla Kenisha Brown, was facing murder, kidnapping, and carjacking charges following a disturbing carjacking incident in Washington D.C. on Monday that resulted in the death of a 55-year-old woman.
The unsettling chain of events began at 1:11 p.m. on Monday at Washington Hospital Center, according to a news release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
On that fateful afternoon, a woman parked a Mazda SUV in front of the hospital with her 55-year-old mother seated beside her in the passenger seat. The driver exited the vehicle momentarily to retrieve a wheelchair for her mother, leaving the engine running.
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Brown, accompanied by her family, emerged from the hospital and seized the opportunity to hop into the unatten- ded Mazda SUV and drive off with the unsuspecting passenger still inside.
Merely 18 minutes later, the stolen vehicle careened into a building at 601 D Street, Northwest. Shockingly, the structure housed the Office of Attorney General for the District of Columbia and the Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, as revealed by the Metropolitan Police Department to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
Attempting to abscond from the crash site, the suspect departed the vehicle but was promptly apprehended by a Metropolitan Police Department captain.
The passenger in the stolen vehicle, identified as Leslie Marie Gaines, suffered grave injuries and was rushed to the hospital, where she was tragically pronounced dead.
Brown now finds herself at the center of a legal maelstrom, charged with felony murder, kidnapping, and carjacking. The specifics of her legal representation remain unclear at this juncture.
Amidst ongoing investigations, authorities have announced that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy to ascertain the cause and manner of Gaines’ untimely demise.
Three days later, DC US Attorney Graves dropped the murder and kidnapping charges. Watch:
DC carjacker crashes near US Attorney’s office, elderly woman inside vehicle dies: police | Fox News
And Matthew Graves let her walk on murder and kidnapping charges today.
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So this 22 year old pretty much killed a 55 year old while in process of stealing a car.
WTF????
This story is beyond sad and heartbreaking. No, not the grandmother’s untimely death……the misfortune that Matt Graves was not standing outside of his building at the point of impact.
Would have solved more murderers being freed for crimes during his watch. Graves is definitely one of the names for the Nuremburg list of criminals to receive future prosecution (however that happens) by humanity. He has flagrantly used the power of his office to perpetrate crimes against humanity.
ON THE LIST!
Suspect Graves needs to free up jail space for people who walked through the Capitol on J-6
Just read about one of the prisoners of Jan. 6th has a swollen leg from a blood clot and isn’t allowed medical care. So far we’ve had 2 suicides I hope this won’t be another death.
The same people who charge whites with murder, for subduing violent criminals in NYC’s subways, let blacks get away with robbery, looting, assaults and now murder.
We are going to have to man up sooner or later. I prefer the latter.
Reparations ….
Graves doesn’t prosecute, he percicutes.
There is no such word.
I hope Graves soon lives up to his name.
Yeah, I’d like to piss on his Graves.
VOTE REPUBLICAN= FREEDOM VOTE DEMONRAT= COMMUNISM
I agree but too many Dems are too stupid to know what Communism is and what it entails for it to matter to them
Welcome to Biden’s America.
This will and should encourage vigilantism
You can’t have a justice system without just judges, a-political prosecuting attorneys, and unbiased jurors. We don’t seem to have many of these right now and we’re all suffering the horrible consequences. You don’t have to rip up the constitution when the legal system no longer supports or implements it as intended. Tragic!!
well said Franny
If the laws aren’t enforced, they won’t be obeyed. The charges should stand and the perp. should be tried, found guilty and imprisoned. To do less says the victim’s life had no value. Lock her up and lose the key.
Is this another black kills white & gets away with it story?
Trump has to report to a probation officer I wonder if this girl that killed someone has to report to anyone at all. Not sure what this country has turned into.