Prosecutors dismissed an accessory after the fact charge for a shooting defendant before DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt on Feb. 10.
Gerald Day, 34, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm during crime of violence, carry pistol without a license outside home or business, and threatening to kidnap or injure a person for allegedly holding a gun to a woman’s face after she argued with a group of his friends at the intersection of O Street and Carrolsburg Place, SW.
Day’s co-defendant, Paul Poston, 32, was sentenced on June 26, 2024 to two years of imprisonment, with all but 10 months suspended, for shooting at the same victim’s car after the altercation. According to court documents, a witness told police Day tried to stop Poston from firing before they fled together in a silver truck…