Dominique Bassil was indicted today on one count of second-degree murder while armed in the stabbing death of Vance Harris on Aug. 13. Bassil is suspected of killing Harris, her boyfriend, in their Southeast D.C. apartment. Her attorney, Elizabeth Mullins, argued at a preliminary hearing that the fatal stabbing could have been in self-defense. Bassil … Read more →
Judge Gerald Fisher ordered the release of 25-year-old Dominique Bassil from custody today, saying that if the court’s high intensity supervision and mental health experts agreed, Bassil could live with her mother while awaiting trial. Bassil is suspected of killing her boyfriend, Vance Harris, last weekend in their Southeast D.C. apartment. Prosecutors had sought a … Read more →
Dominique Bassil was ordered held today after Judge Karen Howze found probable cause to believe that Bassil killed her boyfriend, Vance Harris, early Saturday by stabbing him. The decision to hold the 25-year-old woman was met with anger and disbelief by more than a dozen family members who attended the hearing hoping for her release. … Read more →
An early morning stabbing in Southeast D.C. Saturday killed 28-year-old Vance Darnell Harris II. Twenty-five-year-old Dominique Bassil was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with the case. MPD’s press release is after the jump. August 14, 2011 Homicide: 3900 Block of 13th Street, SE (Washington, DC)-Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch … Read more →
Suspected in the Aug. 13, 2011 death of Vance Darnell Harris II.
