A man who visited a roadside grill for a hot dog at about 2:30 a.m. March 14 was later arrested and charged with murder.
Jeremy Washington, 35, compared his March 21 arrest to a dream from which he wanted to but couldn’t wake up from.
“I was surprised and I told them it wasn’t me and I had nothing to do with anything,” Washington told Channel 2 Action News.
DeKalb County police suspected Jeremy Washington, 35, of opening fire at a driver stopped at a red light in the 3000 block of Moreland Avenue, near a Citgo gas station.
“I do not feel like they were fair at all during the course and I feel like they had already had their mind made up that this is guy and we want to book him,” Washington said.
Washington’s attorney, Tom Stubbs, said most people out committing crimes don’t do so in work vehicles with contact information printed on the car, as Washington’s did.
“Now I have had a lot of clients who were not the sharpest rocks in the quarry, but very few have had to do a drive by shooting with their phone number plastered all over their car,” Stubbs told Channel 2.
Video surveillance from a night club a block away from where the shooting took place showed Washington buying his dinner after work, Stubbs told Channel 2.
After he buys a hot dog from a roadside grille, video shows Washington driving off in his SUV and the black mustang that was shot up leaves after Washington and then another vehicle follows.
Major Stephen Fore, a spokesman for DeKalb County police, said investigators has probable cause to arrest Washington.
“Mr. Washington was not wrongfully arrested,” Fore said. “Detectives investigating this homicide developed probable cause based on statements of surviving victims.”
Witnesses told police the driver of a white SUV fired upon a black Ford Mustang, killing 32-year-old Darius Davenport and critically injuring two passengers, who were struck in the face.
Cynthia Williams, a spokeswoman for the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, said Williams was released from jail April 7 on a $25,000 bond. If Washington paid the entire amount in cash at the jail when he was released, he would get a full refund once all charges were dropped and processed through the court system, Williams said.
But if he paid a bonding company a fee to put up the bond, he would likely lose that fee, which can be as much as 10 percent or in this case, $2,500.
Now, he wants to clear his name and get his job back, Washington told Channel 2.
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