The mother of Johnson’s 2-and-a-half-year-old son said she’s filled with sorrow and disgust.
“No child deserves to be told that their father was shot in the back and murdered for no reason,” she said.
David Hall Dixon faces two second-degree murder charges. He told police the men were breaking into cars in the parking lot of the condominium building.
“An epidemic that’s been going on for a long time where badges and oaths and guns somehow continue to take away Black life needlessly,” the Rev. Graylan Hagler said.
Since Dixon’s arrest, video from an incident almost a year ago surfaced, and Dixon’s also facing assault and weapons charges for allegedly pointing a long gun at a woman in the building’s lobby.
Family of Maryland men killed by off-duty Pentagon officer wants surveillance footage to be made public
By Sierra Fox
Update on Pentagon officer charged in Takoma Park double murder
The families of two men who were shot to death in a Takoma Park condominium complex parking lot want video of the incident to be released.
TAKOMA PARK, Md. - Malik Shabazz, the attorney for Dominique Williams, one of two men killed by an off-duty Pentagon Police Officer David Dixon in Takoma Park, is demanding surveillance video of the deadly shooting be released immediately. We need to see it and we don’t want it sugar coated. We know it’s a bad video. It’s bad enough for him to be charged and so we want to see the video. That’s going to help in our investigation and help in our lawsuit, said Shabazz.
Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy speaks on the accusations against an off-duty Pentagon officer. (WTOP/Matt Small)
There will be no bond for the off-duty Pentagon police officer charged in the fatal shootings of two men in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Montgomery County District Judge Eric Nee ordered David Hall Dixon of Takoma Park to remain behind bars. The 40-year-old is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of using a handgun in commission of a felony, and reckless endangerment in the deaths of Dominique Williams, 32, of Hyattsville and James Lionel Johnson, 38, of District Heights.
The shootings happened in the parking lot of the Takoma Overlook Condominiums on the 7300 block of New Hampshire Avenue last week.
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