Posted on 06/10/2024 2:32:57 PM PDT by grundle
Murder and kidnapping charges against a woman accused of carjacking and then crashing a car with a passenger inside were dropped, in part because the medical examiner has not ruled on the manner of the passenger’s death, prosecutors said.
The judge ordered the suspect, 22-year-old Kayla Kenisha Brown, of Southeast D.C., remain held without bond on a charge of unarmed carjacking.
Leslie Marie Gaines’ daughter left her mother in a Mazda SUV at MedStar Washington Hospital Center for a moment Monday afternoon to get her a wheelchair, police said.
At the time, Brown was with her family at the hospital in the 100 block of Irving Street NW when she walked away from them, police said. Brown allegedly got into the driver’s seat and took off with the 55-year-old Gaines still inside.
Nineteen minutes later, Brown tried to turn left onto D Street but “failed to negotiate the turn” and crashed into the building at 601 D Street NW, 3 miles away from MedStar, police said. The building is the offices of the U.S. attorney and attorney general for D.C.
A police officer immediately detained Brown.
Gaines was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
In a report introduced in court Friday, D.C. Fire and EMS said paramedics found no injuries to Gaines, and it’s unclear if she died from trauma or other medical issues. Gaines had multiple sclerosis and had been fainting before the carjacking, according to evidence introduced Friday.
Police can’t account for the 19 minutes between the carjacking and the crash, saying they have no images of the SUV during that time.
No cameras in DC? Yeah, right.
NO PICTURES OF THE VEHICLE FOR 19 MINUTES IN D.C? PURE B.S. The most video covered city in America, they are still arresting and jailing j6 people with facial recognition. Yet they can’t find a car in d.c. Bsbsbsbsbsb!!.
They are doing this in all the big Cities.
Soros wants Race as the primary consideration.
A person died in the course of committing another felony.
That is felony murder. There is no need for intent to cause death. Intent to commit a felony is the standard, and if in the course of felony you cause a death, it’s murder. Example: a heart attack suffered by the stress of a bank robbery where no shots fired.
Since the “we can’t determine cause of death” cannot be the reason, why was the charge dropped?
Do you think Kayla Kenisha Brown comes from a protected race?
Yeah. Me too. Her father, however, says she was “acting crazy for about three days” prior to the incident. The article also notes:
“D.C. Superior Court Judge Heide Herrmann found probable cause supporting only the unarmed carjacking charge. Hermann ordered Brown be held without bond on that charge. Prosecutors said they would present the other charges to a grand jury.”
Why would they even need pictures? She was present in a stolen vehicle, and she was arrested at the scene of accident as the driver of that stolen vehicle.
“”Kayla Kenisha Brown””
I am not even going to look!!!!!
KBA
“”A person died in the course of committing another felony.””
You probably want to make that more clear as to WHO it is you’re talking about - the person dying hadn’t committed any crime!
they dropped the charges while they figure out a way to get her out of this
they being the prosecutors
Good thing the perps last name wasn’t trump and no check for a skank was made otherwise she’d be in deep doo doo
This is raw insanity.
Race is primary
BIB
Black privilege.
BLACK TRUMPS ALL!!! NO LAWS FOR THEM!
Sounds Amish, alright.
Trump should have the FBI arrest the Mayor, DA, and the perp once he gets into office and try them for endangerment of public safety.
“in part because the medical examiner has not ruled on the manner of the passenger’s death”
Charge the medical examiner with obstruction of justice. Time to stop messing around with these people.
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