Three of the four defendants facing charges for a fatal shooting in November 2022, Malik Akheem Hawk, Lawrence Devon Foye and Matthew Jaquez Daughtery, appeared in Cabell County Circuit Court via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday.
Three of the four defendants facing charges for a fatal shooting in November 2022, Malik Akheem Hawk, Lawrence Devon Foye and Matthew Jaquez Daughtery, appeared in Cabell County Circuit Court via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
Three of the four defendants facing charges for a fatal shooting in November 2022, Malik Akheem Hawk, Lawrence Devon Foye and Matthew Jaquez Daughtery, appeared in Cabell County Circuit Court via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday.
Three of the four defendants facing charges for a fatal shooting in November 2022, Malik Akheem Hawk, Lawrence Devon Foye and Matthew Jaquez Daughtery, appeared in Cabell County Circuit Court via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
HUNTINGTON òòò½ÊÓƵ” Four men charged in a fatal shooting in 2022 were granted continuances for their pre-trial dates Tuesday in Cabell County Circuit Court.
Malik Ahkeem Hawk, Darmarquis Dewayne Patterson and Matthew Jaquez Daughtery, of Charleston, and Lawrence Devone Foye, of St. Albans, were arrested last year and indicted on charges of murder, use or presentment of a firearm during the commission of a felony and conspiracy for the shooting of 40-year-old Christopher J. Johnson, of Huntington.
While the other three defendants were arrested in January 2023, Daughtery was arrested in Baltimore in August 2023, roughly eight months after the shooting.
When Huntington Police responded to a shooting in the 1800 block of 9th Avenue on the evening of Nov. 30, 2022, they found Johnson had been shot. He later died at a local hospital as a result of his injuries.
Defense attorneys Glen Conway, Kerry Nessel and Timothy Rosinsky representing Hawk, Foye and Patterson respectively, originally argued that their defendants were not the ones who actually shot Johnson, according to a witness, but that it was actually Daughtery.
Jason Goad is now the defense attorney for Hawk.
Circuit Court Judge Paul Farrell granted a motion by the defense attorneys to continue finding the division between the four men appropriate. All four men will still be tried together.
Farrell continued the pre-trial for the four men into the next term on Aug. 5, according to his office.
Patterson, the only defendant out on bond, did not show up to court Tuesday, and according to the prosecuting attorney, there was a motion to revoke his bond, as he picked up additional charges in Putnam County.
Katelyn Aluise is an education and courts reporter for The Herald-Dispatch.
