DC Superior Court Judge Carmen McLean granted a carjacking defendant on home confinement permission to attend his grandmother’s funeral at a hearing on Feb. 18.
Kavon Johnson, 19, is charged with unarmed carjacking committed against a transportation provider, assault with intent to commit robbery committed against a transportation provider, strangulation, and threatening to kidnap or injure a person for his alleged involvement in an incident on Dec. 13, 2025 on the 4600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SW.
At the hearing, Johnson’s attorney, Janai Reed, requested a change in her client’s conditions of home confinement to allow him to attend his grandmother’s funeral in Maryland…