A Southwest DC man is free Friday after a second-degree murder charge he was facing in the stabbing death of a 60-year-old cab driver was dismissed. The man, Darryl Matthews, appeared in court Thursday. At that hearing prosecutors voluntarily dismissed the case saying that they did not indict the case. Matthews had been in custody … Read more →
Darryl Matthews was ordered released Friday from a halfway house where he was held while a grand jury investigates a charge that he fatally stabbed 60-year-old Hayes Osei Dennis in July 2012. Matthews has now been placed in the court’s High Intensity Supervision Program and is required to live with his parents, wear a GPS … Read more →
Judge Russell Canan found probable cause Friday that Darryl Matthews stabbed and killed 60-year-old Hayes Osei Dennis outside the Gold Star Garage on Q Street Southwest last year. Matthews is being held at a halfway house and will be required to wear GPS monitoring. Canan ruled that placement in a halfway house is “more appropriate” … Read more →
Wearing a white T-shirt, dark jeans, and black boots, Darryl Matthews appeared before Judge Karen Howze Wednesday where she ruled that there was enough evidence to hold him for 90 days in connection with the stabbing death of 60-year-old taxi driver Hayes Osei Dennis. Dennis died at George Washington University Hospital on July 19, 2012, … Read more →
Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force officers arrested a 29-year-old man Tuesday on suspicion of fatally stabbing Hayes Osei Dennis last year. Darryl Matthews, of Southwest D.C., was taken into custody Tuesday on suspicion of second-degree murder while armed, according to a police statement. Police responded at about 7 p.m. July 19, 2012 to Q … Read more →
Metropolitan police have released the video of a man sought in connection with the stabbing death of Hayes Osei Dennis. The video shows a black man with braided hair—wearing a gray long-sleeved shirt, black pants and tennis shoes—walk through a parking lot. He is carrying a black jacket with gray lining. Three minutes later, the … Read more →
Fox5, the Washington Post and the Washington Times have reported on the death of Hayes Osei Dennis. Dennis was fatally stabbed Thursday evening in a robbery at his taxi repair shop in Southwest DC. The Washington Post reports that Dennis’ brother-in-law, Osei Antwi, said the attacked entered the shop asking for a drink of water. … Read more →
This Comment of the Day comes from Mike, who wrote in about Hayes Osei Dennis. I am currently Presidential/Goldstar cab driver and have been driving for the past 3 years. During my tenure with Goldstar I had the pleasure to work with “Hayes” and although he would also drive a cab, Goldstar #1, I was … Read more →
A stabbing Thursday evening in Southwest DC killed Hayes Osei Dennis, a 60-year-old Fort Washington man. According to a homicide reward poster released Friday afternoon, MPD responde at about 7 p.m. Thursday night to the unit block of Q Street Southwest for a report of a shooting. Once there, they found Dennis suffering from a … Read more →
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