Former DC violence interrupter cleared of murder charge
A former D.C. violence interrupter whose arrest made headlines last year is now cleared of the charges. A judge found there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Cotey Wynn with a 2017 killing in Northeast. D.C. police had arrested Wynn, who worked in the Trinidad neighborhood as a violence interrupter, in connection with the killing of Eric Wright three years earlier. After hearing the evidence against the 39-year-old, D.C. Superior Judge Danya Dayson decided there wasn’t enough to warrant the murder charge against him. The turning point in the continued preliminary hearing came during the le...