The 234 Apartment

BELMONT — A 27-year-old Menlo Park man charged with the murder of a friend’s ex-boyfriend pleaded not guilty Tuesday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney ’s Office. Jovhon Stewart  The 24-year-old victim, DeJohn Jones, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Aug. 5 when he went to Jolie Harris’ one-bedroom apartment on the 500 block of Ralston Avenue in Belmont with his sister and cousin to retrieve a television and other items that belonged to him. Prosecutors said Jones and Harris had recently broken up. At the apartment with Harris that morning were her brother Victor Bell and five other friends, including the suspect, Jovhon A. Stewart. Stewart was identified as Jones’ killer by Bell, Stewart’s girlfriend Bryana Fields and Davinci Mendoza, according to prosecutors. Authorities arrested Stewart at the Union City BART station on Aug. 9. An autopsy showed Jones was shot twice in the back, once in the head and once in the arm. Prosecutors said he was not a...

Jovhon Stewart A court-appointed attorney will be assigned to the case of an East Bay man suspected of shooting and killing a 24-year-old in a Belmont apartment earlier this month after he admitted he would not be able to afford a retained lawyer Wednesday , according to the San Mateo County District Attorney ’s Office. Jovhon Alexander Stewart , 27, did not enter a plea in his second court appearance since his arrest last week, which ended a four- day manhunt spanning two Bay Area counties , according to prosecutors. Early in the morning on Saturday, Aug. 5, DeJohn Jones, a 24-year-old Union City resident , was shot four times at his ex-girlfriend’s 1-bedroom apartment at 566 Ralston Ave., according to prosecutors. According to police and prosecutors, Jones and the woman had recently broken up when he showed up possibly unexpected. Jones, his sister and his cousin went to the woman’s apartment to retrieve his TV and some personal items. When he arrived the woman was th...