Crime & Safety
Murder Charge Filed In Double Fatal Shooting With Silver Spring Victim
Police arrested a suspect in connection with the July 22 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old from Silver Spring and a 29-year-old District man.
WASHINGTON, DC — Homicide detectives from Washington, D.C. arrested a suspect in the double fatal shooting that occurred on July 22 in Northwest. Police identified the victims as 19-year-old Zion Hollingsworth-Hayes of Silver Spring and 29-year-old Luke Whitaker of Northwest, D.C.
Officers responded around 9:53 p.m., on July 22, for the report of a shooting in the 1400 block of Girard Street, Northwest. One of the victims was found at that location and the second was located a short time later in the 1400 block of Fairmont Street, Northwest.
D.C. Fire and EMS personnel declared both Hollingsworth-Hayes and Whitaker dead at the scene, according police. The two were later taken to the Office of the Chief Medical examiner.
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