Update: DC Police Identify Victim In Nash Street Shooting

UPDATE (March 3, 8:20 a.m.): Metropolitan Police Department detectives identified the decedent in the Sunday, March 1, shooting in the 4900 block of Nash Street, N.E., as Miguel Romero, 75, of Northeast.

WASHINGTON, DC — Metropolitan Police Department detectives are investigating two fatal shootings that took place Sunday afternoon, one in the Shaw neighborhood and the other in Deanwood, according to police reports.

In the first incident, officers from the Third District responded to a call on Sunday, March 1, around 2:08 p.m., to the report of gunshots in the 600 block of S Street, N.W. Officers found a teenage boy suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was taken by D.C. Fire and EMS to a nearby hospital for the treatment of life-threatening wounds. All efforts to save his life failed and the victim was pronounced dead. Police identified the decedent as Malachi Lukes, 13, of Northwest.

Officers also found a second teenage boy suffering from a gunshot would in the 600 block of Rhode Island Avenue, N.W. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

In the second shooting incident, officers from the Sixth District responded on Sunday, around 2:02 p.m., for the report of gunshots in the 4900 block of Nash Street, N.E. Arriving officers discovered an adult male inside a residence suffering from a gunshot wound. D.C. Fire and EMS personnel examined the victim and found no signs of life. The decedent, whose name is being withheld until notification of next of kin, was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

MPD is investing both of these incidents as homicides. Anyone with information about either of these cases is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by sending a text message to 50411.