The judge refuses defense applications to suppress the evidence of shooting procedures

By Carly Silverman
– March 5, 2025
Daily stories | Not fatal shooting | Shoot | Suspect |

The judge of the DC Colonel Court, Errol Arthur, leaned several applications that a defendant had submitted in a shooting procedure, moments before the start of the court proceedings on March 3.

The 26-year-old Dupre Jones is charged with a dangerous weapon, the possession of a firearm during a violent crime, the cruelty of a second degree, the illegal possession of a firearm with a prior conviction and illegal discharge of a firearm for his alleged participation in an unhappy shooting.

Judge Arthur denied applications from Jones' lawyer Adgie O'Byrant, to suppress evidence and statements, and found that the evidence was relevant in the case and that the evidence and statements were properly and legally recorded.

The evidence in question was the Shotpotter technology, with the software for recognizing weapon shots and their location and sent to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Jones supposedly made the officers voluntary statements during his arrest without being asked by key questions.

In the application to suppress tangible evidence, said O'Byrant that Jones Stop, confiscation, search and arrest were illegal because the officials had no specific facts that he was involved in criminal behavior, and therefore the firearm and its resulting evidence should be suppressed. He also explained that O'Bryant's clothing did not match the description of the suspect via the MPD radio.

Judge Arthur also decided that the official, who arrested Jones, probably had reason due to a scale of a firearm and then allegedly found a firearm in his pants in connection with the Schootspotter evidence and a radio call description.

The jury was selected, and the parties are to reappear on March 4 for the opening of statements.