A DC Police detective described the 13-year-old girl’s role in it as “the most brutal part of the murder.”
WASHINGTON — Motion hearings continued for a third day in the murder trial of 64-year-old Reggie Brown. Five teenage girls are facing several charges including second-degree murder and assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with his death.
On Thursday, DC Police Detective Harry Singleton continued to testify about what happened the night of Brown’s death, as well as an interview he conducted with one of the 13-year-old girls. During the morning arguments, that 13-year-old girl became emotional and started crying.
At one point in the testimony, Singleton described the cell phone video allegedly taken by one of the girls of the brutal attack. He described the 13-year-old girl’s role in it as “the most brutal part of the murder.”
Brown’s sisters, nieces and nephews have been in the courtroom, both in person and via WebEx since the trial began. WUSA9 spoke to his sisters after Thursday’s proceedings. One of them says reliving her brother’s death every day in the courtroom this week has been nothing short of a nightmare.
“Every morning that I have to come down here, I have these real bad headaches,” she explained. “The way this has affected my entire family, we just want to see justice.”
The family tells WUSA9 that Brown was the youngest of seven children and was battling lupus, as well as other health ailments.
Another one of Brown’s sisters says they’re fighting for justice so that no other family has to go through what they did.
“Everybody is just heartbroken and we are just trying to get through this,” she explained. “We just don’t want this to happen to another family. We are not just taking a stand for Reginald Brown but for the whole entire American families.”
Motion hearings are scheduled to continue on Friday when another DC Police detective is expected to testify.
