On the night of Friday, May 23, 2025, 19-year-old Jamar DeAndre Jackson was shot and killed in Southeast Washington, D.C. The shooting happened about 10:19 p.m. in the 4200 block of 4th Street Southeast. When officers from the Seventh District arrived they found three males with gunshot wounds in the roadway; emergency medical services responded and pronounced Jackson and a 16-year-old boy, Royell Walker, dead at the scene.

A 14-year-old male was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Major Case Squad is leading an investigation that has been classified as a double homicide.

What information do readers have about that block of 4th Street Southeast or activity in the area that night?