Sept. 3 I escaped the halfway house. I made a bad decision.
I turned myself in four days later. Now I have two charges: escape and the original aggravated assault charge, which is a felony. My lawyer said that he wanted me to plead guilty for three years, but I’m taking it to jury trial. Here’s why:
I was outside of McDonalds on 19th and M St NW, asking if someone could buy me something to eat. Two security guards on their way inside saw me and told me I had to get up and away from the entrance. I refused and told them that if McDonald’s managers came out and told me to move, I would do so. They called the police.
I told them that they don’t work for McDonald’s and I don’t have to obey them. The guys got mad and threatened to get me barred off the whole block. I told one to go ahead. They went inside for about five minutes and came back out with no food. I was still outside on the ground. The one guy kept asking me to fight. I told him I don’t want to fight. He wouldn’t take no for an answer. So I eventually got up to fight. We walked down M St towards 20th Street. He wanted to fight me off cameras.
We went down 20th St into the alley next to 1129 20th St NW. We got ready. He thought there were no cameras around. He hit me over my left eye and busted my forehead, knocking me to the ground. His name is Jimmy. He and his girl, Jeneva, tried to attack me. I got up in time. I threw a total of four punches. I swung the first time and missed a second time, hitting Jimmy in the face a third time in his face, he went down unconscious.
I turned to Jeneva. She got on her back screaming and kicking. I held her legs still and punched her in the face.
I fled the scene, ran up Dupont Circle and washed the blood off my face. I walked back down toward the crime scene, where I was arrested. I was wrong for hitting the lady, wrong for going into the alley to fight. But they started the fight, they hit me first. We all should have been placed under arrest. So I am going for a jury trial.
The camera will show the truth in the video. The police report said I threw the first punch. It said I followed them into the alley and I punched multiple times while Jimmy was unconscious and I knocked Jeneva to the ground, hitting her multiple times. This is a lie. I hit her once. I’m over D.C. Jail, waiting to go back to the halfway house.
