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    Marcus D. Dansby Sentenced in 2016 IN Murder of Three and Unborn Child




    Death penalty sought in quadruple killing


    Marcus D. Dansby faces four counts of murder, 1 count attempted murder

    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards will seek a death sentence for a man accused of the gruesome killings of three people and an unborn baby inside a south-side home in September.

    The prosecutor’s office on Thursday filed a motion to add an application for death sentence in its case against 20-year-old Marcus D. Dansby. A judge will consider the application Friday morning at a status hearing.

    As it stands, Dansby faces four counts of murder in the deaths of 37-year-old Consuela Arrington; 18-year-old Traeven Harris; 18-year-old Dajahiona Arrington and her full-term baby, and another for attempted murder related in the shooting and stabbing of 14-year-old Trinity Hairston, all of Fort Wayne.

    The charges stem from an incident that unfolded around 4 a.m. Sept. 11 inside a home at 3006 Holton Ave. There, police arrive to find the victims bodies stabbed and shot, and Dansby covered in blood, leaning over the couch, crying and asking for help, according to an affidavit. On him, police found a large blood-soaked knife with a broken handle, the affidavit said.

    Police said that Dansby and Dajahiona Arrington had been in a relationship, but the pair had separated after the woman became pregnant with another man’s child. A family member told investigators that Dansby had not been at the Holton Avenue home in months.

    Until September, it would appear.

    During an interview with police, Dansby immediately told an investigator, “I am still hearing gunshots,” and reportedly asked, “Did anyone survive?” according to the affidavit. Dansby denied the killings, and told police that he saw a man with a knife and had attempted to offer first-aid to Harris, Hairston, and Consuela Arrington. He said he had not tried to call 911 because he did not have a cell phone. When police found a cell phone on him, he said the cell phone belonged to Consuela Arrington, according to the affidavit.

    Dansby had cuts on his left hand and initially told police he did know where the cuts came from. Later he remembered “his cat scratched him,” according to the affidavit.

    Damion Arrington, the current caregiver for Trinity and the brother of Consuela Arrington, told NewsChannel 15 on Thursday that the family supports the decision of the prosecutor’s office to seek the death penalty.

    “We want to thank the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Fort Wayne Police Department for all of their hard work on this case,” said Damion Arrington. “We want to thank our family and friends for their support during this very difficult time.”

    Dansby is being held in the Allen County Jail without bond ahead of his schedule Feb. 27 jury trial. In addition to the murder charges, he also faces a sentence enhancer for using a firearm in the commission of a violent offense.

    The last death penalty sought in Allen County was against Simon Rios, who was convicted of killing his wife and three daughters in December 2005 at their Fort Wayne home, along with a 10-year-old neighbor girl. The death penalty was dropped, though, after the family raised objections for religious reasons. Rios was serving five life sentences for the killings when he killed himself in his jail cell at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in October 2008.

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    Attorney seeks trial delay for man accused of killing 3

    The attorney for a Fort Wayne man accused of killing three people, including a pregnant woman, said Friday he needs more time to prepare for trial now that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against his client.

    Marcus Dansby, 20, was formally notified during Friday's hearing in Allen Superior Court that prosecutors would seek the death penalty if he's convicted in the September killings.

    Dansby's trial was scheduled for later this month, but his attorney, Nikos Nakos, sought a delay because the death penalty filing makes the case much more complicated, The Journal Gazette reported (http://bit.ly/2i1Sftu).

    Superior Court Judge Fran Gull said the request would be taken up at a pretrial hearing next Wednesday. Prosecutors said they had no objections to delaying the trial.

    Dansby is charged with killing Consuela Arrington, 37; Traeven Harris, 18; and Dajahiona Arrington, 18. Prosecutors have filed four murder charges because Arrington, Danby's former girlfriend, was 8 ˝ months pregnant.

    Dansby maintains his innocence in the slayings and has refused to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life without parole, Nakos said.

    He described his client as one of the most polite people he's ever met and said Dansby's teachers and others who knew him can't believe he's charged in the killings.

    "He has no record," Nakos said. "When my client maintains his innocence and professes it to me, I have to believe him."

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    Murder trial moves to September for man accused of killing four on Holton Avenue

    The murder trial of a man accused of killing four people inside a home in the 3000 block of Holton Avenue has been rescheduled to September, a year after the killings took place.

    Marcus D. Dansby will now go on trial beginning Sept. 25 and ending in late October to allow enough time to hear all evidence in the death penalty phase should Dansby be found guilty by a jury.

    Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull said the trial will take place every day, including holidays and Saturdays, until completed. All hearings related to the case will be transcribed and sent to Indianapolis, where the Indiana Supreme Court is located and monitors death penalty cases.

    Dansby is charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony for the Sept. 11 attack that killed Consuela Arrington, 37, Traeven Harris, 18, Dajahiona Arrington, 18, and Dajahiona Arrington's unborn baby. One teen survived life-threatening injuries.

    According to court documents, Fort Wayne Police responded to a report of gunshots being fired inside the home just before 4 a.m. Sept. 11. When officers arrived, they found three people dead and a wounded teen, who was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.

    Police found Dansby inside the house and took him into custody. He was charged with three murders until the Allen County Coroner's Office determined Dajahiona Arrington's unborn baby would have lived if Arrington had not died. The Allen County Prosecutor's office then added the fourth murder charge.

    Dansby last appeared in court Friday for a status hearing considering the Allen County Prosecutor's Office's motion to add Count VII, an application for death sentence. He had been scheduled to go on trial in late February.

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    Attorney: Suspect in quadruple killing was father of unborn baby

    By WANE Staff Reports
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    FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The attorney for a man who police say killed four people last September said Wednesday there is a 99.99-percent chance that Marcus Dansby was the father of the unborn baby he’s accused of killing.

    Dansby faces four counts of murder in the Sept. 11, 2016, deaths of 37-year-old Consuela Arrington; 18-year-old Traeven Harris; 18-year-old Dajahiona Arrington and her full-term baby named A.J., and another for attempted murder related in the shooting and stabbing of 14-year-old Trinity Hairston, all of Fort Wayne.

    The charges stem from an incident that unfolded around 4 a.m. Sept. 11 inside a home at 3006 Holton Ave. There, police arrive to find the victims bodies stabbed and shot, and Dansby covered in blood, leaning over the couch, crying and asking for help, according to an affidavit. On him, police found a large blood-soaked knife with a broken handle, the affidavit said.

    Police said that Dansby and Dajahiona Arrington had been in a relationship, but the pair had separated after the woman became pregnant with another man’s child. Dansby’s attorney, Nikos Nakos, said Allen County Prosecutors will argue that Dansby killed the family because the baby wasn’t his.

    A DNA test, though, confirmed with near-certainty that Dansby was the father of the unborn child, according to Nakos. The attorney argued that it’s illogical Dansby would have killed the family armed with the knowledge that he was the father of the child.

    The Allen County Prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against Dansby. He is scheduled to stand trial in September.

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    Attorney asks judge to put off first Allen Co. death penalty case since 2006

    By Jonathan Shelley
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    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA 21) - A Fort Wayne man facing the death penalty appeared in court on Friday.

    Attorneys for Marcus Dansby told a judge they needed more time to prepare for his upcoming trial, submitting a 30-page document for consideration.

    The judge is expected to decide by Aug. 3 whether to grant the motion and push back the trial.

    Right now, Dansby is set to go before a jury on Sept. 25. He's accused of killing four members of a local family on Holdon Avenue in September 2016.

    One of the victims was Dansby's unborn child.

    This is the first death penalty filing in Allen County since 2006.The decision to seek the death penalty was made in January.

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    Death-penalty trial likely to be rescheduled

    By Matthew Leblanc
    The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

    The trial for a Fort Wayne man facing the death penalty in the slayings of four people -- one of them his unborn child -- will likely be pushed back.

    Prosecutors and a lawyer for Marcus Dansby told Allen Superior Judge Fran Gull on Friday that depositions and other documents still must be gathered. The trial had been set to start Feb. 21, and a new trial date has not been set.

    Gull set a pretrial conference for Jan. 12.

    Dansby, who was in court Friday morning, is charged with killing Traeven Harris, 18, Consuela Arrington, 37, Dajahiona Arrington, 18, and her unborn child, which was later determined to be his. Trinity Hairston suffered gunshot and stab wounds but survived.

    The killings happened in a home on Holton Avenue on the morning of Sept. 11, 2016.

    According to court documents, a man inside the house woke up to the sound of gunshots around 4 a.m. He called police and went upstairs to find Dansby, covered in blood, placing something that looked like a sheet over Consuela Arrington, investigators said.

    Dajahiona Arrington was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time and was shot in the head.

    Police at the scene found a knife and a gun, each covered in blood.

    Dansby is charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Prosecutors in January filed paperwork to seek the death penalty.

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    Defense attorney in death penalty case removed, chided as ‘unprepared’

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    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The attorney for a man facing the death penalty was removed from the case after a judge said he was unprepared and inexperienced.

    Nikos Nakos, the defense attorney in the state of Indiana’s murder case against Marcus Dansby, was removed as counsel by Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull Friday morning during a hearing.

    Dansby faces four counts of murder related to the Sept. 11, 2016, deaths of 37-year-old Consuela Arrington; 18-year-old Traeven Harris; 18-year-old Dajahiona Arrington and her full-term baby named A.J., and another for attempted murder related in the shooting and stabbing of 14-year-old Trinity Hairston, all of Fort Wayne.

    Since those charges were filed, though, Gull said there have been no depositions taken and no mitigation investigation has taken place, including acquiring a mitigation expert (though Gull signed the appointment for a mitigation investigator in June 2017).

    What’s more, Gull argued that Nakos did not meet the expectations of a defense attorney in a capital case as laid out by the American Bar Association. Gull said Nakos has 22 open felony cases and lacks special training to represent a client in a death penalty case. The judge also said Nakos has been generally unprepared and has treated the case like any other case.

    Prosecutors said they, too, have been concerned with the issues brought up by Gull.

    Gull enforced Dansby’s 6th amendment right of high quality representation and removed Nakos. The public defenders office will appoint Bob Gevers and Michelle Krause to represent Dansby.

    Nakos, who has twice filed motions to have Gull recuse herself from the case for violating the code of judicial conduct, said he plans to appeal the ruling.

    Dansby is next scheduled to appear in court Feb. 2. He’s not expected to stand trial until 2019.

    The charges against Dansby stem from an incident that unfolded around 4 a.m. that Sept. 11 morning inside a home at 3006 Holton Ave. There, police arrive to find the victims bodies stabbed and shot, and Dansby covered in blood, leaning over the couch, crying and asking for help, according to an affidavit. On him, police found a large blood-soaked knife with a broken handle, the affidavit said.

    Police said that Dansby and Dajahiona Arrington had been in a relationship, but the pair had separated after the woman became pregnant with another man’s child. Nakos had said Allen County Prosecutors will argue that Dansby killed the family because the baby wasn’t his but a DNA test confirmed with near-certainty that Dansby was the father of the unborn child. Nakos said previously that it was illogical Dansby would have killed the family armed with the knowledge that he was the father of the child.

    The Allen County Prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against Dansby.

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    Defense will challenge Allen County judge in death penalty case

    By JG Courts
    The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

    Court-appointed lawyers for a man facing the death penalty will challenge an Allen County judge's decision last week to remove a private defense attorney from the case.

    Michelle Kraus said Wednesday she or public defender Robert Gevers will file an interlocutory appeal – one that is allowed while the case is ongoing – asking appellate court judges to decide whether Superior Court Judge Fran Gull's removal of Nikos Nakos was proper.

    Kraus and Gevers were assigned to represent Marcus Dansby after Gull's ruling Friday. Dansby, 22, is charged with killing four people – including his unborn child – in 2016.

    Superior Court Judge Fran Gull ordered Nakos off the case, writing in court documents filed last week "he is not qualified to provide the high quality representation required by the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution."

    She said in a hearing Friday that Nakos has not participated in special training for lawyers in capital cases. The dozens of other cases he is handling in state and federal court could affect his ability to effectively represent Dansby, Gull said.

    Nakos counters that rules for lawyers in death penalty cases cited by Gull apply only to court-appointed attorneys.

    He is right, according to the state's Rules of Criminal Procedure and Norman Lefstein, an expert on death penalty representation who is a law professor and dean emeritus at Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

    But, Lefstein said, it is up to the judge to decide whether lawyers are qualified to serve their clients in such cases.

    "If he is a retained lawyer, these do not apply," said Lefstein, who has authored papers on death penalty representation and served for 17 years as chairman of the Indiana Public Defender Commission. "But the judge does have discretion."

    The rules include requirements that appointed attorneys in capital cases have at least 12 hours of training from the commission. Lawyers' workloads must be managed "to assure that counsel can direct sufficient attention to the defense of a capital case," the criminal procedure rules state.

    The appeal must be filed within 30 days of Gull's ruling, Kraus said.

    Interlocutory appeals are relatively rare and are sometimes filed in criminal cases when questions arise over suppression of evidence, said Larry Landis, executive director of the Indiana Public Defenders Council. The council is separate from the commission and is a state agency made up of public defenders that helps coordinate duties and provides research for attorneys.

    Dansby was charged in September 2016 with killing Traeven Harris, 18, Consuela Arrington, 37, Dajahiona Arrington, 18, and her unborn child, which was later determined to be his. The killings happened in a home on Holton Avenue.

    Prosecutors sought the death penalty in January 2017.

    Nakos maintains he is qualified to handle the case and has asked in court documents to remain a member of the defense team. He said Tuesday he has known Dansby and his family for "many, many years" and wants to help them and defense attorneys.

    "I'd be willing to assist the public defenders in any possible way, and I've expressed that to them," Nakos said.

    Kraus declined to comment on whether Nakos might re-join the defense.

    Paperwork had not been filed with the Indiana Court of Appeals, as of Wednesday afternoon.

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    Marcus Dansby’s death penalty case rescheduled for spring of 2019

    By Lisa Esquivel Long
    The News-Sentinel

    A man facing the death penalty if convicted of the four charges of murder against him, including the death of an unborn baby, appeared in court Friday, a week after an Allen Superior judge said his lawyer wasn’t qualified for the case.

    Judge Fran Gull removed Nikos Nakos as lead attorney of Marcus D. Dansby’s case, “as he is not qualified to prove the high-quality representation required by the 6th Amendment to the United State Constitution,” according to court records.

    Nakos was replaced with public defender Michelle Kraus as lead attorney and former Allen County Prosecutor Robert Gevers as co-counsel. Gull found Friday they were qualified, which includes taking at least 12 hours of capital defense training, and the prosecution agreed to reset the trial for April 15-May 31, 2019.

    Dansby sat between his public defenders during Friday’s hearing and smiled at his family and Nakos, who were all sitting in the front row of the courtroom. Nakos, a private attorney, said after the hearing that he was there at Dansby’s wish and had not been ruled out as a third counsel in the case.

    Dansby is charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony for the Sept. 11, 2016, attack that killed Consuela Arrington, 37; her son Traeven Harris, 18; and her daughter Dajahiona Arrington, 18, who was 8˝ months pregnant with a boy. One teen survived life-threatening injuries.

    The Allen County Coroner’s Office determined the unborn boy would have lived if Dajahiona Arrington, who was Dansby’s ex-girlfriend, had not died.

    The shootings took place at Consuela Arrington’s home in the 3000 block of Holton Avenue. She was shot and stabbed, according to an autopsy.

    Dansby’s murder trial had been scheduled for February 2017, then last September, and eventually moved to March 21-30, with no sessions Fridays-Mondays during that time. The change in counsel, as well as the time it would take to determine an interlocutory appeal – an appeal while a trial case is ongoing – that Dansby’s new defense plans to file to determine Nakos’ removal was proper led to the trial being rescheduled for 2019.

    According to court documents, Fort Wayne Police officers found Dansby inside the house and took him into custody. A witness told officers he had been asleep with his girlfriend in the basement and went upstairs to investigate the commotion when he found

    Dansby covered in blood, putting a blanket on Consuela Arrington. He asked why Dansby was there, but Dansby didn’t answer him. The relative told police Dansby and Dajahiona Arrington had broken up about six months ago and he believed the baby was not his.

    Dansby told police he was on the porch talking with Dajahiona Arrington when he saw a man “mean mugging” him, according to a probable-cause affidavit filed in Allen Superior Court. It was this man, Dansby said, who did the crime while he hid in Arrington’s closet. When he came out of the closet, he saw a man swinging his arm with a knife as if he were stabbing someone and went looking for a phone to call 911. Police found Dansby in possession of Consuela Arrington’s phone as well as a knife, which he accused the police of “planting” on him, the affidavit said.

    Police examined Arrington’s closet, allegedly finding that the number of items in it prevented the door from closing; they also saw it was not possible for Dansby to have hidden in the closet while the killings took place, according to the affidavit. Police also allegedly found a bloodied handgun that contained a smeared handprint hidden under the wall of the porch. Dansby told police his cat was responsible for cuts on his hands, the affidavit said.

    Death penalty experience

    On Friday, Kraus said that the Public Defender’s Office will limit their caseload as the trial date approaches.

    She has handled these death penalty cases:

    • She served as lead defense attorney for Simon Rios, a Mexican national and Fort Wayne resident who was sentenced in Delaware County for the rape and killing of 10-year-old Alejandra Gutierrez, a Fort Wayne native and friend of the Rios family he lured into his van Dec. 8, 2005, while she was on her way to a school-bus stop near her Clinton Street home. He then dumped her body in a gravel pit in northern Delaware County. Days later Rios killed his wife and three young daughters – ages 10 months, 20 months and 10 years old – with an extension cord and shoelaces back in Fort Wayne before drawing a map to show police where he left Gutierrez’s body.

    In September 2017 Rios got life in prison without parole in a plea deal in the Delaware County case. The next month he pleaded guilty in Allen County to four counts of murder and two counts of moving bodies after a suspicious death. In return, Allen County prosecutors dropped the death penalty and offered him life in prison without parole.

    Rios hanged himself while imprisoned at the Pendleton Correction Facility a little over a week after the Allen County case concluded.

    • She represented Gregory Scott Johnson during an appeal of his death sentence after he was convicted in 1986 of the beating death of an 82-year-old Anderson woman and setting her home on fire. The Indiana Supreme Court denied his appeal and he was executed in May 2005.

    • She represented Zolo Agona Azania, previously known as Rufus Averhart, during his 1996 appeal of the death sentence imposed after his conviction for the murder of Gary Police Lt. George Yaros 15 years earlier during a bank robbery in Gary. He was tried in Allen County. The Indiana Supreme Court overturned that and a second death penalty sentence. Before a third death penalty trial started in 2007, the Yaros family agreed to the prosecutor dropping the death penalty in return for a 74-year sentence. He was released last year from the Miami Correctional Facility in Indiana after serving 35 years in prison because of time for good behavior.

    Death penalty in Allen County

    Dansby is one of a handful of men in the last 20 years to face the death penalty or threat of it in Allen County. Simon Rios, mentioned above, and others have plea-bargained their charges down to life sentences without parole or what likely could amount to a life sentence.

    • Michael L. Plumadore would have faced the death penalty had he not pleaded guilty in May 2012 and chosen to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of Aliahna Lemmon. The 9-year-old was killed Dec. 22, 2011, and her body dismembered.

    • Ronrico Hatch pleaded guilty in February 2004 to firing the shot that killed 17-year-old Cheri Sue Hartman in August 2002. In return for his plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a request for the death penalty and ask that he instead be sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole.

    • Lamar “Marty” Parker, 30, pleaded guilty in 2002 to the shootings of Calvin Soil, 39, and Anissa Cole, 26, on May 24, 2001. Soil died soon after from his chest wound. Cole lingered in a coma for six months after being shot in the head before her death. Prosecutors planned to file for the death penalty before his plea agreement, which required Parker, 31, to serve 110 years in prison.

    • Joseph Corcoran was convicted in 1999 of murdering his brother, James Corcoran, 30; his sister’s fiance, Robert Scott Turner, 32; Timothy G. Bricker, 30; and Douglas A. Stillwell, 30; in July 1997. He is currently the only person sitting on death row after being sentenced in Allen County for a case that occurred here.

    Indiana reinstated the death penalty in 1977.

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    Sequestered jury sought for Dansby

    By JG Courts
    The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

    Lawyers for a Fort Wayne man facing the death penalty have asked a judge to sequester jurors who will hear the case next year.

    Marcus Dansby is charged with killing four people, including his unborn child, in 2016. His trial is set for April 2019.

    State law requires the court to sequester a jury in death penalty cases if it's requested by the defendant, according to documents filed Tuesday. The request asks an Allen Superior Court judge to sequester jurors as they are chosen to serve and then as part of the full jury.

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