Washington D.C. Man Sentenced For The 2023 Stabbing Of His Girlfriend
Monday, February 10, 2024, 7:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
WASHINGTON, DC.- A 30-year-old Washington, D.C. man learned he would be spending the next 15 years in prison for the September 2023 brutal stabbing of his girlfriend during a domestic dispute inside their Washington, D.C. apartment.
On Friday, February 7, 2025, Devan Green, 30, of Washington, D.C., appeared in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia and was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt to 180 months in prison for his November 2024 conviction on multiple counts in connection with a domestic violence incident that nearly killed his girlfriend.
On November 14, 2024, following a 13-day trial before Superior Court Judge Brandt, a jury found Green guilty of one count of Assault with Intent to Kill While Armed; one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon; one count of Aggravated Assault While Armed; and one count of Assault with Causing Significant Bodily Injury While Armed.
In handing down the sentence on Friday, Judge Brandt also ordered Green to have no contact with the victim or her son.
Evidence Presented At Trial
According to U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin and evidence presented at trial, on September 19, 2023, during a domestic dispute, Green held his girlfriend and her child inside of their apartment against their will for over forty minutes while her family members called the Metropolitan Police Department multiple times requesting assistance.
Green picked up her son and, put him in a back bedroom, and stabbed his girlfriend once in the chest with a knife. When his girlfriend went to check on her son, Green stabbed her 20 more times. He then fled the apartment and was apprehended a month later.
U.S. Attorney Martin commended the Detectives of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department for their investigative work in the successful prosecution of Green, resulting in Friday’s prison sentence.
