BAY MINETTE, Ala. – A bond revocation hearing for murder suspect Jon Washington is set for Wednesday morning at 9 in C. Joseph Norton's courtroom in Bay Minette.
Representatives with attorney John Beck, Washington’s attorney, confirmed the …
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BAY MINETTE, Ala. – A bond revocation hearing for murder suspect Jon Washington is set for Wednesday morning at 9 in C. Joseph Norton's courtroom in Bay Minette.
Representatives with attorney John Beck, Washington’s attorney, confirmed the hearing is on the docket.
According to court documents filed on Aug. 12 by Assistant District Attorney Michaelyn S. Gober, Washington, who is out on $100,000 bond after his arrest in the shooting death of Kenny Myers in February 2012 at Washington’s residence on Marina Road in Orange Beach. He violated the terms of the bond because of a recent arrest.
A hearing was requested within 72 hours of the filing, but a hearing was not scheduled until now.
The Aug. 12 filing says Washington’s Aug. 10 arrest of disorderly conduct in Auburn, where he has allegedly been living since making bond on Feb. 9, 2012, is a violation of the bond agreement.
The filing reads: The State asserts as grounds for revoking the bond the following:
1. Defendant was arrested and charged with murder on Feb. 9, 2012, defendant was released from jail on bond.
2. Conditions of bond included the defendant obey all laws, no alcohol, and no contact with any business whose primary source of income was from alcohol sales, among other conditions.
3. On or about Aug. 10, 2013, defendant was arrested for disorderly conduct in Auburn, Ala.
4. The arrest was based on defendant choking another person outside the Bourbon Street Bar and Grill in Auburn, Ala., after being ejected from that establishment by the business’ security.
5. Defendant has violated the conditions of his bond, thus his bond should be revoked.
Myers and Washington ended up at Washington’s house in the early hours of Feb. 8, 2012, where Washington says an accidental discharge of a pistol took Myers life.
“That’s what he originally said, it was an accident,” Orange Beach Assistant Police Chief Greg Duck said at the time. Duck also said both men were under the influence.
Lt. Steve Brown of the Orange Beach Police Department said evidence at the scene led officers to charge Washington with murder.
“The wound to Mr. Myers head, he had a wound to his head, the weapon would have had to be in close proximity when it was discharged,” Brown said. “So it was a contact wound. It was in close proximity to his head. It wasn’t a shot fired at distance.”
The .38 caliber weapon belonged to Washington.
“He claimed ownership of it,” Brown said. “It had been in the family for a while.”
Washington’s attorney at that time, Pascal Bruijn said at the time his client admitted shooting Myers, but it was a tragic accident.
“I know they’d like to spin it into something else,” Bruijn said in February 2012. “The gun accidentally went off. It wasn’t an intentional shooting. He admits to accidentally shooting him.”
Bruijn said Washington was also injured the incident, the was the result of Washington trying to kill himself after realizing what he’d done.
Bruijn, contacted recently by email, said his co-counsel John Beck, the lead attorney for Washington now.