Document: DC Reaches 130 Homicides with Southwest Shooting

By D.C. Witness Staff - September 19, 2019
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The Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating a fatal shooting that occurred on Sept. 18.

According to a press release, officers found 27-year-old Marquette Harris unconscious, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds on the 200 block of P Street, SW. Harris was pronounced dead on the scene.

Police are offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this homicide or any other homicide in DC. Anyone with information is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s Text Tip Line — 50411.

MPD data only accounts for 125 homicides in 2019.

However, according to D.C. Witness data, there have been 130 homicides this year, including a murder-suicide, a police involved shooting, one pedestrian fatality and two traffic fatalities.

MPD does not classify three vehicular fatalities as criminal fatalities even though perpetrators were charged in two of the cases according to a representative from the Public Affairs department of MPD.

Robert Earl Little, Jr. pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter on July 23 for the murder of David Salovesh in April. Little’s sentencing is scheduled on Sept. 27.

On Sept. 6, Dejuan Marshall was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after he was convicted of killing 31-year-old Abdul Seck in April.

A suspect has not been apprehended in a hit and run on Sept. 16.

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