4 Suspects Charged In Homicide Of 13-Year-Old Boy: DC Police

WASHINGTON, DC — Metropolitan P0lice Department homicide detectives arrested four suspects in connection with the fatal shooting of Malachi Lukes, 13, of Northwest, according to a police release. Mayor Muriel Bowser cited the arrests as an example how the police and public can work together for a common good.

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 Lukes suffering from a gunshot wound. D.C. Fire and EMS transported Lukes to a nearby hospital for the treatment of life-threatening wounds. All efforts to save his life failed and he was pronounced dead.

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

D.C. Superior Court issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Aaron Brown, 24, of Southeast. Police charged him with first degree murder while armed (premeditated).

Acting on D.C. Superior Court arrest warrants Friday, MPD arrested Reginald Steele, 21, and Koran Jackson, 19, both of Southeast, and charged them each with first degree murder while armed (premeditated).

D.C. Superior Court also issued a booking order Friday and members of the Major Violator Section’s Fugitive Unit transported Tyiion Freeman, 20, of Northwest, to the Homicide Branch. Detectives there charged him with first degree murder while armed (premeditated).

The U.S Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives assisted MPD with this case.

During a Friday morning press briefing, Bowser was asked about her reaction to the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis early this week. She mentioned the arrests in the Lukes case as an example of how police and the public can work together to create a safer community.

"We need good police in our neighborhoods," she said. "We need them to be able to do their jobs. The police chief today announced the closing of a murder of a 13-year-old in one of our neighborhoods. Detectives and police were able to get the type of information that they need because communities trust the police that they were working with and they had enough of a child being killed in their neighborhood. So we need each other. It's not us versus them. It's us together for a safer community."

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