Men Sentenced for DC Stray Bullet Killing of 11-Year-Old Davon McNeal

Three males have been sentenced to jail time for a capturing that killed an 11-year-old boy virtually two years in the past in Southeast D.C. 

Davon McNeal was hit by a stray bullet as he stepped out of his mom’s automotive on July 4, 2020. That they had simply attended an anti-violence cookout within the neighborhood they moved out of as a result of it was too harmful.

Carlo Common, 21, was sentenced Friday to 16 years in jail. Marcel Gordon, 27, acquired 10 years. Christen Wingfield, 24, acquired 9 and 1/2 years. Every of the D.C. males additionally was sentenced to 5 years of supervised launch.  

A fourth man, Daryle Bond, 20, is about to be sentenced in August to 7 and 1/2 to 9 and 1/2 years.

All 4 males pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter whereas armed and have been in custody since their arrests in summer time and fall 2020.

John Ayala, McNeal’s grandfather, stated earlier this yr that he was indignant the lads acquired plea offers as an alternative of going to trial. 

“They’ll be out perhaps in 5 years, and my grandson won’t ever be again right here once more,” he stated. “[…] I really feel like I’m on fireplace.” 

A spokesperson for the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace stated on the time that the plea agreements adopted an intensive investigation and evaluation of things together with case legislation and the proof.

Arrest affidavits stated the lads sentenced for McNeal’s loss of life have been a part of warring “crews” working in Southeast. Close to the crime scene within the 1400 block of Cedar Avenue SE, detectives discovered greater than a dozen shell casings from 5 weapons.

McNeal was a center schooler who cherished soccer and dreamed of taking part in within the NFL.