A father of four and DC government
employee is behind bars for the
murder of this young boy here,
13 year old Kieran Blake.
About 2 1/2 hours ago we just got an
update from police about this case
and a judge also denied this man.
Jason Lewis, who's charged with his murder,
denied him bail. Tonight.
He's charged with second degree murder after
turning himself in earlier this morning.
Our Delia Gonzalez is all
over this story tonight.
She joins us live from outside
of that courthouse.
Indeed, we know that the Community
had been begging for details and
answers in this case for weeks now.
We finally got.
A lot of those
details today, and many of
them are truly heartbreaking.
Certainly so. The judge even
said that this is exceptionally
concerning the facts of this case.
Jason Lewis stood before
the judge handcuffed,
wearing a white button down shirt.
He PLED not guilty,
but she repeatedly said that the government
is likely to win its case against him.
The judge went on to describe Mr.
Lewis as the first aggressor and says
he loses his right to self-defense.
The investigation took the amount
of time that it needed to take so
that we would be at this point.
We're getting our first look at
images from surveillance cameras
that helped police and prosecutors
build their case against Jason Lewis,
a 41 year old father of four
and 18 year employee of the
Department of Parks and Recreation.
This stolen Kia pulls into
the 1000 block of Quincy St.
just after 3:30 AM January 7th.
3 young men step out,
police say video shows them
trying to break into parked cars.
Lewis says the noises wake him up and he
thinks someone's breaking into his home,
his Blink camera showing him armed with
a gun, stepping out onto his front patio.
He yells at the kids.
At this point, two are in the car.
Koran is a ways away.
That's when this image shows
Lewis extending his arm to fire
a single shot towards that car.
Police say Lewis never told them
about that when he was interviewed.
That is problematic for me after
that first shot, prosecutors say.
Moran started running.
This red arrow on this surveillance image
shows Koran heading towards Lewis's house.
The defense attorney argues Lewis
at that point felt threatened.
According to court records,
Lewis pulled the trigger three more
times that the running child who
pleads with him repeatedly saying,
I'm a kid, I'm only 12, I'm sorry.
Please don't
know whether you know Koran
knew or didn't know you know.
That a person was standing there with a
gun who he was running at or you know,
running at it at a full Sprint.
You know, maybe he, Mr.
Lewis felt threatened at that point.
I mean, I I don't know.
I can only speculate there,
but I think that where things really unravel,
it was just the initial shot that was fired.
And that first shot that was fired really
dominated the discussion today in court.
The defense attorney says Lewis only had
one gun and that has been confiscated.
Police, they say they will revoke
his concealed carry license.
Lewis is back in court February 13th.
But Zoe, before I let you, before I go,
I do want to mention one thing that
the police chief talked about.
And this is our kids who are clearly
in crisis and the trauma that
is surrounding this whole case.
He spoke specifically about the two other
young men who were in that getaway car.
He says.
I don't want to talk about charges.
The Attorney general can think about
that since they are juveniles.
But I'm concerned about these young people
being in a stolen car at that time of night.
What were they doing?
They are clearly in trouble,
he says.
And the chief says I want to make
sure they get the help they need
to get off the streets and to
turn their lives around.
So
that is so critical.
Of course we are thinking of Karan Blake's.
Normally tonight.
And yeah, as you mentioned,
those two kids who were with him that night,
hopefully, as the chief mentioned,
they are getting the help they need.
Delia. Thank you.