Prosecutors are asking a Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge to increase the bond set for a teenager who, when released on house arrest for an unrelated crime, is accused of fatally shooting a man at Westland Mall.
Javontae Williams, 17, of the South Side, was arrested in October in connection with the Sept. 20 shooting death of 21-year-old Sage Martin outside the former Westland Mall on the West Side.
Williams was charged with a delinquency count of aggravated murder in the case, and prosecutors requested he be tried as an adult.
A police source told The Dispatch that Williams had been on electronic monitoring with GPS under a court order from county juvenile court in an unrelated case in early 2020. On July 6, two and a half months before Williams is accused of killing Martin, Williams was removed from the electronic monitoring and placed on what is commonly known as "honor system house arrest."