In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, April 12, 2026, gunfire was reported at an apartment building in the 1200 block of Valley Avenue Southeast. Officers arriving at about 5:01 a.m. found 29-year-old Levon Livingston of Southeast, D.C., unresponsive in a hallway with a gunshot wound. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel attempted lifesaving measures but Livingston was pronounced dead.

Detectives quickly treated the shooting as domestic in nature and identified a suspect within a day. A D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant was issued for 26-year-old Niko Lancaster of Oxon Hill, Maryland. On April 13, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, working with the Prince George’s County Police Department, located and arrested Lancaster without incident; he was charged with Second Degree Murder in connection with Livingston’s death.

Does anyone in the neighborhood or who knew Levon have information about what happened in the hours before the shooting?