Aaron Adams | Homicide Watch DChttp://homicidewatch.org/suspects/aaron-adams/Latest news about Aaron Adamsen-usWed, 21 Mar 2012 13:35:51 -0400Murder Charge Against Aaron Adams Dismissedhttp://homicidewatch.org/2012/03/21/murder-charge-against-aaron-adams-dismissed/<p>A second-degree murder charge against <a href="http://homicidewatch.org/suspects/aaron-adams/" >Aaron Adams</a> has been dismissed.</p> <p>Adams, who was 25 years old when he was arrested in June 2011, was suspected in the stabbing death of <a href="http://homicidewatch.org/victims/garrett-armand-white/" >Garrett Armand White</a>.</p> <p>The US Attorney's Office declined to comment on the dismissal, but said that the investigation "is continuing."<br /> <span id="more-8230"></span><br /> White was stabbed outside a nightclub on Georgia Avenue Northwest on May 29. According to <a href="http://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/15/prosecutors-believe-they-have-man-murder-victim-identified-before-dying/" >charging documents</a> in the case, when a police officer arrived on the scene, White was still alive and able to talk.</p> <p>“Ace did this to me. He stabbed me,” White told the officer, who then asked what “Ace” looked like.</p> <p>“If I make it through this, I will tell you,” White said.</p> <p>White didn’t make it through. Just after 9 a.m. on Sunday May 29, he was pronounced dead, less than six hours after he had been stabbed.</p> <p>In charging documents, detectives said "Ace" was Adams; at a preliminary hearing, Judge Gerald Fisher found probable cause to believe the charge against Adams.</p> <p>According to court records, Adams was in the custody of a halfway house while the Grand Jury investigated his case. Records show that the case was dismissed last Thursday; the record does not show Adams having been indicted in the case.</p> <p>In DC, an indictment, which is a formal charge, must be secured in the process of a Grand Jury investigation in order for the case to proceed to trial. Prosecutors have nine months from the time that a defendant is arrested to secure an indictment against that defendant.</p> <p>Based on Adam's arrest date, the nine month deadline in his case would have been up Feb. 15, 2012.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="fancybox" href="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-21-at-1.38.07-PM.png" ><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8232" title="Screen shot 2012-03-21 at 1.38.07 PM" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-21-at-1.38.07-PM-300x62.png" alt="" width="300" height="62" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="fancybox" href="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-21-at-1.38.24-PM.png" ><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8233" title="Screen shot 2012-03-21 at 1.38.24 PM" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-21-at-1.38.24-PM-300x86.png" alt="" width="300" height="86" /></a></p> <p><script src="http://s3.documentcloud.org/viewer/loader.js"></script><br /> <script> DV.load("http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/328306-scn-0061.js", { width: 450, height: 600, sidebar: false, container: "#DV-viewer-328306-scn-0061" }); </script><br /> <noscript><br /> <a href="http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/328306/scn-0061.pdf" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','download','http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/328306/scn-0061.pdf']);">Aaron Adams dismissal (PDF)</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/328306/scn-0061.txt" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://s3.documentcloud.org']);">Aaron Adams dismissal (Text)</a><br /> </noscript></p> Laura AmicoWed, 21 Mar 2012 13:35:51 -0400http://homicidewatch.org/2012/03/21/murder-charge-against-aaron-adams-dismissed/Garrett Armand WhiteAaron AdamsAaron Adams Released to Halfway House Following Preliminary Hearing in Garrett White Murder Casehttp://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/23/aaron-adams-released-to-halfway-house-following-preliminary-hearing-in-garrett-white-murder-case/<p><a href="http://homicidewatch.org/category/suspects/aaron-adams/">Aaron Adams</a> was released today after Judge Gerald Fisher found probable cause--but not the stronger "substantial probability" prosecutors sought--to believe that Adams was the person responsible for fatally stabbing <a href="http://homicidewatch.org/category/victims/garrett-armand-white/">Garrett White</a> Memorial Day weekend in a large fight outside a Georgia Avenue bar.</p> <p>Adams is suspected of second degree murder. He was arrested after White, lying injured in the street, <a href="http://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/15/prosecutors-believe-they-have-man-murder-victim-identified-before-dying/">told officers</a>: "Ace did this to me. He stabbed me."</p> <p>Friends of the men, and people who were at the same bar the night of the stabbing, identified Adams as "Ace" to police. Investigators have not yet identified any witnesses to the stabbing.</p> <p>Fisher rejected the government's request that he find "substantial probability" in the case, saying White's is the only identification of Adams as the perpetrator and that that identification is weak because White was likely drinking and fighting the night he was killed. He released Adams, saying that he did not believe he presented a danger to society.<br /> <span id="more-4282"></span><br /> At the preliminary hearing Thursday morning, MPD Homicide Detective Sean Caine testified that witnesses to the fight said White had been "wilding out," and had punched two women in their faces and, when a man came to the women's defense, he punched him, dropping him to the ground.</p> <p>Caine testified that that incident agitated a crowd who had gathered with White outside the bar, a crowd that witnesses said included Adams.</p> <p>"We don't have the whole story of everything that happened yet," Caine told the court.</p> <p>Families of both men were in court for the preliminary hearing, and White's family was upset that Adams was released into the custody of a halfway house.</p> <p>White's aunt, Dorothy Walker, said she was surprised to hear details about the fight.</p> <p>"If he were provoked, he would defend himself," she said of her nephew. "But he's not the type to strike someone. He loved children and respected elderly people. I didn't know him to be like that."</p> <p>A status hearing date is set for the case for Sept. 23.</p> Laura AmicoThu, 23 Jun 2011 12:03:20 -0400http://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/23/aaron-adams-released-to-halfway-house-following-preliminary-hearing-in-garrett-white-murder-case/Garrett Armand WhiteAaron AdamsAaron Adams Preliminary Hearing Rescheduledhttp://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/16/aaron-adams-preliminary-hearing-rescheduled/<p>A preliminary hearing in the case against<a href="http://homicidewatch.org/category/suspects/aaron-adams/"> Aaron Adams</a>, accused of stabbing to death <a href="http://homicidewatch.org/category/victims/garrett-armand-white/">Garrett White</a> over Memorial Day weekend, has been rescheduled for June 23.</p> <p>A notice on Adams' docket indicates that the first date the hearing was scheduled for-- Friday-- was in error.</p> Laura AmicoThu, 16 Jun 2011 21:58:07 -0400http://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/16/aaron-adams-preliminary-hearing-rescheduled/Garrett Armand WhiteAaron AdamsProsecutors Believe they Have Man Murder Victim Named Before Dyinghttp://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/15/prosecutors-believe-they-have-man-murder-victim-identified-before-dying/<p>Twenty-five-year-old <a href="http://homicidewatch.org/category/victims/garrett-armand-white/">Garrett White</a> was laying on the ground outside a DC nightclub, covered in blood and clutching his abdomen when a police officer found him.</p> <p>"Ace did this to me. He stabbed me," White told the officer, who then asked what "Ace" looked like.</p> <p>"If I make it through this, I will tell you," White said.</p> <p>White didn't make it through. Just after 9 a.m. on Sunday May 29, he was pronounced dead, less than six hours after he had been stabbed.</p> <p>Those details are according to charging documents filed June 10 (and posted after the jump). In them government investigators allege that "Ace" is Aaron Adams, a 25-year-old DC man with a brief criminal history of misdemeanor drug and theft charges.<br /> <span id="more-4161"></span><br /> Adams appeared in DC Superior Court today to be presented with a second-degree murder charge in connection with White's death. Wearing a printed gray t-shirt and jeans, Adams showed no emotion while attorneys debated whether there is, at this point, probable cause to try Adams for the crime. Judge Karen Howze ruled that there was.</p> <p>Charging documents allege that Adams and White may have been involved in a melee of 12 to 16 men and woman outside the G-Spot Bar &#038; Lounge over the Memorial Day weekend. White, who was 6' 6'', was seen in the crowd by a witness "with his fists raised in a defensive posture."</p> <p>Shortly before that witness saw White on the ground, Adams was seen leaving the fight and walking back into the nightclub. The documents don't provide any details on what happened in the fight.</p> <p>A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for Friday at 9:30 a.m. in Judge Gerald Fisher's courtroom (320).</p> <p><script src="http://s3.documentcloud.org/viewer/loader.js"></script><br /> <script> DV.load('http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/204651-aaron-adams.js', { width: 450, height: 600, sidebar: false, container: "#DV-viewer-204651-aaron-adams" }); </script></p> Laura AmicoWed, 15 Jun 2011 17:51:48 -0400http://homicidewatch.org/2011/06/15/prosecutors-believe-they-have-man-murder-victim-identified-before-dying/Garrett Armand WhiteAaron Adams