{"id":2664951,"date":"2026-09-19T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-prosecutor-dropped-his-gun-charges-1-year-later-he-was-charged-with-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:15:02","slug":"soros-prosecutor-dropped-his-gun-charges-1-year-later-he-was-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-prosecutor-dropped-his-gun-charges-1-year-later-he-was-charged-with-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros Prosecutor Dropped His Gun Charges: 1 Year Later, He Was Charged with Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoros-prosecutor-dropped-his-gun-charges-1-year-later-he-was-charged-with-murder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2664951&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A man arrested for a shooting in Northern Virginia in 2025 was charged with second-degree murder a year after multiple felony charges were dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Malachi Rawlings was charged with six felonies, including \u201caggravated malicious wounding\u201d and \u201cuse of a machine gun for an aggressive purpose,\u201d for the Jan. 1, 2025, incident in a Ballston apartment building in which he was found to be in possession of an illegally modified pistol, ARLNOW.com <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/2026\/08\/28\/man-who-admitted-to-ballston-shooting-in-2025-is-arrested-on-murder-charge-in-d-c\/\">reported<\/a>. However, after being given \u201cdeferred adjudication\u201d for those charges, he was arrested by police in Washington, D.C., and charged with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cPursuant to a DC Superior Court arrest warrant, members of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force located and arrested\u00a023-year-old Malachi Rawlings\u00a0of Southeast, D.C. Rawlings was charged with\u00a0Second Degree Murder While Armed,\u201d the Metropolitan Police Department said in an Aug. 2 <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/release\/arrest-made-congress-street-homicide\">release<\/a>. A 30-year-old woman was found unconscious and suffering from gunshot wounds on May 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The six felonies Rawlings was charged with in state court over the January 2025 shooting could have led to a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison, with the maximum sentence being life without parole plus up to 49 years, ARLNow.com <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/2025\/03\/04\/ballston-shooting-suspect-had-illegally-modified-handgun-police-say\/\">reported<\/a> in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The National Shooting Sports Foundation\u2019s <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rightsideoflegal.org\/\">RightSideofLegal.org<\/a> website warns that having a machine-gun conversion device, like a Glock switch, without registration and authorization from \u00a0the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) can lead to ten years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 in fines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Arlington County Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti received nearly $1 million in donations from political action committees funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vpap.org\/committees\/327472\/top_donors\/\">according<\/a> to campaign finance records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cI have used my lobbying power as a prosecutor to push for gun safety laws,\u201d Dehghani-Tafti told Jejune Magazine in a 2023 interview as she was running for a second term. \u201cIn a second term, I will continue to focus on serious crimes, support our legislators in advocating for an assault weapons ban, and work with stakeholders to implement a gun buyback program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Dehghani-Tafti also declared her intention to enforce the ban on modern semiautomatic firearms signed into law by Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger in May before the legislation was placed on hold by courts pending the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Viramontes v. Cook County, which challenges a similar bill from a Chicago-area locality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cYes, we plan to prosecute cases under the assault weapons ban if they are brought to us by the police,\u201d Dehghani-Tafti told <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/2026\/07\/07\/violations-of-assault-weapons-ban-would-be-prosecuted-in-arlington-despite-pending-lawsuits\/\">ARLnow.com<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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