For Immediate Release: August 14, 2025

On August 11, 2025, the Grand Jury for the City of Alexandria returned an indictment against the defendant, Travon Anthony Hugee, a 21-year-old Alexandria resident, charging him with two felony counts: Murder and Child Abuse. 

The charges arose from an Alexandria Police Department investigation into the death of a 3-month-old child that occurred on July 19, 2023. That morning, Alexandria police officers responded to an apartment building in the 300 block of S. Reynolds Street for the call of a child in cardiac arrest. Police arrived and met with the defendant, who identified himself as the child’s father. The defendant led them to the child who was unresponsive. Officers began CPR and called for medical assistance. Ultimately, the child was transported to the Fairfax Hospital where she was declared dead.

  A lengthy investigation ensued, resulting in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruling the child’s manner of death as homicide.  

The charges will be tried before the Circuit Court for the City of Alexandria. The maximum penalty for Murder is life in prison. The maximum penalty for Child Abuse is 10 years of incarceration. The defendant was arrested in Fairfax County and remains in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center awaiting transfer to Alexandria for arraignment on this indictment.  

All persons charged with a criminal offense are presumed to be innocent. The fact a person has been charged with an offense is not evidence of guilt and the Commonwealth bears the burden of proving each element of every charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt. 

Rule 3.6 of the Virginia State Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys states, in pertinent part: "A lawyer participating in or associated with the… prosecution … of a criminal matter that may be tried to a jury shall not make or participate in making an extrajudicial statement… that the lawyer knows, or should know, will have a substantial likelihood of interfering with the fairness of a trial by jury." Therefore, the Commonwealth is prohibited from discussing the evidence, its trial strategy, or its work product until the trial of the matter is completed.