On the evening of March 5, 2014, a violent encounter in Northwest Washington, D.C., claimed the life of 24-year-old Roshaine Henry. The fatal incident began to unfold in the 1200 block of Madison Street, Northwest, where Henry met with 20-year-old Corey Saxton. The meeting, ostensibly for a drug transaction, took a deadly turn inside Henry's vehicle.
According to witness testimony, Saxton was heard saying, 'Don't move,' immediately followed by the sound of one or two gunshots.
Despite being critically wounded with a gunshot to the chest, Henry managed to drive away. In a desperate attempt to flee, his car traveled several blocks, striking multiple parked vehicles before it finally rolled over and came to a rest in the 900 block of Madison Street. First responders arrived at the scene of the crash to find Henry in the backseat of his overturned car. He was rushed to a local hospital, but his injuries proved to be fatal, and he was pronounced dead.
The investigation into the homicide quickly led detectives to Corey Saxton. A significant piece of evidence against him was a court-ordered GPS tracking device he was wearing as a condition of his probation. The data from the device placed him at the exact location of the shooting at the time it occurred and showed him leaving the area immediately after. Within five days of the incident, on March 10, 2014, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Saxton.
Initially charged with second-degree murder while armed, Corey Saxton later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter in May 2014. Prosecutors detailed that Saxton had intended to rob Henry of marijuana at gunpoint. In August 2014, a judge sentenced Saxton to 15 years in prison for his role in Roshaine Henry's death.
