Gun-Related Homicides in the District

By D.C. Witness Staff - December 10, 2018
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In nearly four weeks time, there were 15 homicides in the District of Columbia. During that same time frame, the Metropolitan Police Department reported the recovery of 118 illegal firearms within the District, the majority of which were found in Southeast and Northwest DC.

Map of the 15 homicides that occurred in Washington DC, from Oct. 30 to Nov. 30.

The 15 homicides that occurred between October 30 and November 30, included a fatal stabbing, a trauma-related homicide and 13 gun-related murders. A weapon wasn’t specified for the trauma-related case.

Of the 13 fatal shootings: five took place in Northeast,  four were in Southeast, two in Northwest, and two occurred in Southwest DC.

Of the 118 recovered firearms: 52 firearms were located in Southeast, 30 were located in Northwest, 29 were recovered in Northeast and seven were recovered in Southwest DC, according to the police.

Map of illegal firearms recovered by police between Oct. 30 and Nov. 30.

The map, on the left, shows the individual locations of the recovered firearms. According to the police, Kevin Jackson, 29, was found fatally shot Oct. 31 on the Unit block of Mississippi Avenue, SE. Within one mile of Jackson’s death, police found 37-year-old Eugene Johnson on Nov. 7 suffering from gunshot wounds on the Unit block of Galveston Place, SE. Police recovered 13 firearms from the area.

According to the map, a firearm was also recovered less than a mile from where Nazir Ahmad was shot and killed on Nov. 3.

According to court documents, Ahmad, 68, was found fatally shot in the Valero Gas Station’s 24-hour Food Mart on the 900 block of Brentwood Road, NE. On Nov. 26, police arrested and charged Demetrius Pierce with second-degree murder while armed in connection to Ahmad’s death. Apparently, Pierce was trying to steal a cash register from the Food Mart and shot Ahmad in the process.

Pierce, 32, was the first of two arrests made in the 13 gun-related homicides. On Dec. 3, police arrested and charged Robert Theodore Smith, 26, with second-degree murder while armed for allegedly shooting 19-year-old Nya Howard-Reynolds on the Unit block of 57th Place, SE on Nov. 30.

The police collected 23 firearms within a one-mile radius of the Benning Road metro stop in Northeast DC. In the same one-mile radius, three men and Howard-Reynolds were fatally shot.

A map of illegal firearms recovered by police (blue) and gun-related homicides (yellow) between Oct.30 and Nov. 30.

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Thamar Bailey, Maggi Chambers and Emily Mariano contributed to this article.