DC’s 12-day streak of no killings ends, as prosecutors ID violent suspects nabbed by feds

The District witnessed its first killing in nearly two weeks amid the federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital, while prosecutors began identifying some of the criminal suspects arrested by authorities during the citywide crackdown.

Metropolitan Police said a man was mortally wounded by gunfire just after midnight Tuesday in the 300 block of Anacostia Road SE. The victim, whose identity wasn’t divulged, died at a hospital a short time later.

The man’s slaying ended a 12-day streak in which the District had not recorded a homicide.

President Trump on Monday celebrated the lull in bloodshed as the longest stretch for the capital city in years. However, there have been three lengthier homicide-free streaks in 2025 alone. April and May had two-week stretches without a deadly confrontation, and the city’s longest streak without a killing this year was the 16 days between Feb. 25 and March 12.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that federal authorities have arrested 1,094 people and made 115 illegal gun seizures since Mr. Trump’s takeover began Aug. 11.

She said among those arrested during Monday’s operation were a Tren de Aragua gang member — the second one allegedly captured amid the takeover — and a man caught burning an American flag in Lafayette Park near the White House.

The Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia disclosed the identities of the suspects captured during the federal sweeps, offering a better idea of the violent crime arrests that were previously only mentioned in social media posts.

Those taken into custody include two murder suspects who had been at-large for months and a rape suspect who has a history of sex crimes in the District.

One of those suspects named by the prosecutors is Tarik Settles, 30, who was linked to an April 22 shooting in Southeast. Authorities said Mr. Settles gunned down 22-year-old Dar’Juan McRoy following a personal dispute outside of an apartment building in the 2900 block of Knox Place SE.

Court documents said the suspect fled to an alleyway and hid inside a dumpster before he was picked up by a car registered in his name.

Mr. Settles has had multiple interactions with police and has sometimes been arrested on the same block where the shooting took place, the court filing said.

A warrant for his arrest was issued Aug. 12, and he was captured by the FBI on first-degree murder charges two days later. Mr. Settles is in jail and will go before a judge Sept. 2.

Prosecutors said the other murder suspect is Leroy Dixon, 17, who is accused of fatally shooting a teen boy in the Navy Yard neighborhood in May shortly after a Washington Nationals game had ended.

Court documents said Mr. Dixon shot and killed 16-year-old Dominique Dingle at point-blank range in front of a row home in the 1000 block of Third Place SE.

According to the filing, the teens were inside a car together when an argument started and Mr. Dixon told the victim, “Don’t make me do this in front of your mother.”

A tipster who claimed to be a friend with both boys told police the two had been feuding over the past year. The pair had even come to blows in the weeks before the deadly shooting.

“At some point, Domo and Leroy fought, and Domo is believed to have gotten the best of Leroy, which embarrassed him,” the documents said.

“The caller suggested it is because the decedent has hand deformities that Leroy was so embarrassed about losing the fight,” the filing stated. “Since then, there have been several occasions where Leroy has pulled a gun on Domo. The caller added that Leroy has personally told [him] that he would not fight Domo again, and that he would kill him.”

The documents said Mr. Dixon was arrested with an illegal gun on the same block where the shooting took place just four days before Dominique was killed.

A warrant for Mr. Dixon’s arrest was issued in June, and he was captured Aug. 11. He remains locked up and will make his next court appearance Sept. 18.

Prosecutors said rape suspect Andre Lucas was captured by U.S. Marshals on Aug. 14 inside an apartment in the 1000 block of Bladensburg Road NE.

Lucas, who has prior convictions for sex abuse and burglary in the District, was wanted in Prince George’s County in connection to a first-degree rape with a dangerous weapon that occurred Aug. 5.

Court documents said Lucas claimed he was suicidal and needed medication after being taken into custody. Police took him to Washington Hospital Center for treatment, which is when he began lashing out at authorities.

“I’ll f——— kill all three of ya’ll officers. If you touch me I’m gonna take your gun and shoot you, then I’ll shoot myself. So we all be dead in this room,” Lucas said, according to the filing. “I’m gonna make a real emergency out of you. I’ll f——— kill you officers right now.”

The documents said police tightened his handcuffs after his outburst, but Lucas kept threatening the officers and spat on them. He was hit with additional charges of assaulting and threatening police officers.

Lucas in 2017 was sentenced to six years behind bars after he was convicted of barging into a woman’s home and sexually assaulting her.

Police said Lucas first answered the woman’s online advertisement to buy her cell phone before carrying out the attack. He also stole some of the woman’s belongings after the assault.

Court records show Lucas remains in jail and has a mental competency hearing scheduled for Sept. 8. Prosecutors said he is expected to be extradited to Prince George’s County to face the rape charges.

During a cabinet meeting Tuesday, the president announced that he would be seeking the death penalty for anyone convicted of murder in the District.

He also revived his criticisms of Metropolitan Police Department’s crime data, calling the statistics “phony numbers” for showing large drops in violent crime in the District.

“They have to stop issuing false crime numbers,” Mr. Trump said. He then pivoted to criticizing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, for citing law enforcement data indicating a 30-year-low in violent crime.

The president again mentioned the Metropolitan Police commander who is under investigation for allegedly manipulating violent crime numbers in the city to make it appear safer than it is.

Mr. Trump has used the ongoing investigation to justify federalizing D.C.’s police force and deploying nearly 2,000 National Guard troops to the nation’s capital.

The Department of Justice opened its own probe into the crime numbers last week, and the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee said it too was investigating the accuracy of MPD’s crime data.

Tuesday marked the 15th day of Mr. Trump’s crime emergency in the District.

The emergency declaration can only last 30 days, and extending it would require congressional approval. That seems unlikely given that Democrats would need to back the extension for it to take effect.