Document: Suspect Charged in a 2021 Homicide: 700 Block of O Street, Northwest

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The Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) Homicide Branch arrested and charged 30-year-old Johnathan Brown with second-degree murder while armed for his alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Kervin Sanches on July 31, 2021, on the 700 block of O Street, NW.

According to MPD documents, officers responded to the are for the sounds of gunshots, where they located Sanches suffering from gunshot wounds. He was transported to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. A second adult male victim was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital.

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