Southeast Man Charged In April 3 Homicide Of MD Man: Police

WASHINGTON, DC — Homicide detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a Southeast man Sunday in connection with the April 3 fatal shooting of David Deandre Young, 28, of Clinton, Maryland, according to a police release.

Officers from the Seventh District responded around 6:50 p.m., on April 3, to the report of a shooting in the 3400 block of 22nd Street, S.E. When they arrived, they found a Young suffering from a gunshot wound. D.C. Fire and EMS transported him to a nearby hospital, but all life-saving efforts failed and the he was pronounced dead. Officers also located a young male victim at a local hospital receiving treatment for a non-life threatening gunshot wound.

Acting on a D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant Sunday, MPD officers arrested Wesley Scott, 20, of Southeast, and charged him with first degree murder while Armed. This case remains under investigation.

Anyone with information about this shooting incident is asked to call police at 202-727-9099, or send an anonymous tip to the department's TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.