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Philip McDaniel took the witness stand in D.C. Superior Court wearing an orange D.C. jail jumpsuit, his wrists and ankles shackled. His two friends are on trial in connection with the fatal shooting of a college-bound 17-year-old, who was struck by a stray bullet one August afternoon five years ago. And McDaniel, who admitted to driving the men away from the scene, is prosecutors’ star witness.
The shooting, McDaniel said, was an attempt to get revenge against a rival neighborhood gang in Northeast Washington, though the teen, Jamahri Sydnor, was not the target. A day earlier, McDaniel said, a man in the Saratoga Crew shot at him and his two friends in the Langston Park Crew: James Mayfield and Robert Moses. They set out for payback, not caring who in the other neighborhood would be shot, McDaniel testified.
McDaniel described how he drove his gold Honda Accord into the intersection of Saratoga and Montana avenues, stopped the car and left the ignition running with his foot on the brake. He said he watched as Mayfield and Moses pulled masks over their faces, hopped out of the car and casually walked away through some bushes.
McDaniel said he knew what was about to happen, so he turned the radio volume up.
“I wanted to relax myself a bit,” he told Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberley Nielsen. “I was feeling kind of nervous. I kind of had butterflies, you know. It was something that was going to happen.”
Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/08/shooting-jamahri-sydnor-gang-retaliation/
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