Document: Wanted Suspect Extradited and Charged in a Homicide: 3000 Block of Adams Street, Northeast

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The Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) Homicide Branch, with the help of the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force, arrested and charged 21-year-old Jamari Payne with second-degree murder for his alleged involvement in a homicide that occurred on Sept. 22, 2022, on the 3000 block of Adams Street, NE.

According to MPD documents, officers responded to the location for the report of a shooting, where they located an adult male shooting victim with no signs consistent with life.

The victim was identified as 57-year-old Bacilio Villatoro.

On Dec. 23, 2022, Payne was arrested in Harrisburg, PA, pursuant to a DC Superior Court arrest warrant.

Payne was transported to MPD’s Homicide Branch on Aug. 15.