Prosecutors are pursuing new charges against a 23-year-old man accused in a Vancouver shooting and robbery after he allegedly solicited three Clark County Jail inmates to intimidate the victim.
Court documents show Isaac Depre Frazier appeared Monday in Clark County Superior Court to face three counts of intimidating a witness and a single count of first-degree burglary. Frazier’s bail was increased to a total of $2.5 million. He will be arraigned Friday.
He was arrested in January 2018 on suspicion of a slew of crimes, including attempted first-degree murder in two separate cases.
One of the cases was later dismissed without prejudice — meaning it could be refiled at a later date — because authorities lost contact with the victim and key witnesses, according to a motion filed in July 2018. The victim in the remaining attempted murder case, 22-year-old Auston Dunn, was the target of Frazier’s plot hatched inside the jail, court documents say.
Frazier was involved in two break-ins at a North Image home in November and December 2017, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Vancouver police were dispatched the night of Dec. 3, 2017, to the home for a report of a shooting. Officers found Dunn suffering from a single gunshot wound to his leg and scrotum.
Dunn told detectives that Frazier, whom he knew as “Ike,” came to his house with another man. Frazier pulled two handguns from his waistband and held one in each hand. He then demanded Dunn’s marijuana and money, but Dunn refused. Frazier struck Dunn twice on the side of his head, then shot him in his right leg. Frazier pointed one of the handguns at Dunn’s head and pulled the trigger several times, but it did not fire, the affidavit said.
Frazier was identified as a passenger in a vehicle stopped by Vancouver patrol officers Dec. 31, 2017. He was arrested without incident on a felony warrant and as a suspect in the shooting, as well as in a Nov. 8, 2017, shooting at the QuarterDeck Bar, 4300 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., police said at the time.
The newly filed burglary charge against Frazier stems from a Nov. 28, 2017, break-in at Dunn’s home. Dunn returned home to find his door had been shot open and 3 ounces of marijuana was missing, according to a separate probable cause affidavit.
Blood was found on a kitchen counter and collected as evidence. Earlier this month, detectives used a search warrant to obtain a DNA sample from Frazier at the jail, and the samples returned as a match to the blood found at Dunn’s home, the affidavit says.
Authorities say they have more than DNA evidence connecting Frazier to the crimes perpetrated against Dunn.
On Jan. 21, jail deputies contacted Vancouver police detectives after several cell searches turned up notes in which Frazier asked three fellow inmates to intimidate Dunn and Dunn’s girlfriend into not testifying in court. The notes were found in the cells of inmates scheduled to be released Jan. 23. One of the inmates involved is a jail trusty, the affidavit says.
“Trustees (sic) roam the jail hallways delivering food, cleaning hallways and have access to several locations within the jail. Trustees (sic) are often used as ways to transfer contraband to include notes and letters, controlled substance(s) and other items to other inmates in various locations so they aren’t intercepted by jail staff,” the affidavit reads.
One of the handwritten notes recovered from the jail’s work center thanks an inmate for his help and says, in all capital letters, “They don’t show up to court, they can’t use their statements against me,” the affidavit says.
Papers found in all three of the inmates’ cells vary but include Dunn’s full name and address. Two of the papers describe what Dunn looks like; another mentions his family, according to the affidavit.
“I’m just letting you know who this MF is so you know how to handle the situation,” the affidavit quotes Frazier as writing.
Frazier also instructed the recipients to toss the notes after they read them, a directive that apparently none of the men followed.
Detectives used a notebook found in Frazier’s cell to compare with the handwritten notes. They concluded the writing was similar, according to the affidavit.
