• 7 homicides confirmed in the District from roughly March 18 through April 17, 2026, according to Metropolitan Police Department releases and local news coverage.
• Additional violent incidents include a shooting of a U.S. Park Police officer and a triple shooting that left two others injured.
• The National Guard continues its deployment in D.C. to support local law enforcement, patrol key areas, and assist with public safety initiatives.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even with the National Guard still actively deployed across the nation’s capital to bolster the Metropolitan Police Department and maintain order, seven homicides and several other violent shootings were reported in the past 30 days.
On March 23, a U.S. Park Police officer was shot in the shoulder in an apparent ambush in the Marshall Heights area on Drake Place SE. The injury was non-life-threatening and no one else was hurt.
(Source: www.wtop.com/dc/2026/03/us-park-police-officer-shot-in-southeast-dc/)
In the early morning hours of April 10, a murder-suicide unfolded near Jenifer Street NW in Friendship Heights. Forty-two-year-old Robert Stokes, a Metro employee, was fatally shot during a domestic dispute. The 44-year-old suspect, also a Metro employee, then died by suicide.
(Source: www.fox5dc.com coverage of Northwest D.C. murder-suicide)
Later on April 10, 25-year-old De’Angelo Scott was fatally shot in the 3000 block of 30th Street SE.
(Source: MPD investigative release reported by local D.C. outlets)
On April 11 just before 6:30 p.m., a triple shooting in the 3500 block of 22nd Street SE left 18-year-old Dereon Womack dead and two adult men injured by gunfire.
(Source: MPD release covered by WJLA/7News and NBC Washington)
Early April 12, 29-year-old Levon Livingston was shot and killed in the 1200 block of Valley Avenue SE in what authorities described as a domestic incident; a suspect was arrested the same day.
(Source: MPD release reported in local D.C. crime news)
In the pre-dawn hours of April 14, 34-year-old Delonte Turner was fatally shot in the 400 block of Brandywine Street SE.
(Source: www.mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-investigating-brandywine-street-homicide)
That same afternoon around 3:27 p.m., a double homicide rocked the Mayfair neighborhood when 12-year-old Mhilo Young and 14-year-old Tyale Coates were shot and killed near a convenience store in the 700 block of Kenilworth Avenue NE.
(Source: www.wjla.com/news/local/washington-dc-crime-shooting-homicide-murder-shot-northeast-kenilworth-avenue-hayes-street-children-teen-male-juveniles-mayfair and www.wtop.com/dc/2026/04/1-boy-dead-another-injured-in-shooting-in-northeast-dc/)
These incidents come as the National Guard—originally sent in under the current administration to fight crime and support MPD—remains on duty through at least the end of 2026.