A promising 20-year-old local rapper, Adrian Hawkins, was shot and killed in a Northwest Washington, D.C. apartment building late on June 10, 2026. Police found Hawkins unresponsive in a sixth-floor hallway after a reported shooting around 10:30 p.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds. The victim was known in the local rap community as TrapHard Swagg.

A teenage girl was also wounded that night, sustaining a graze that was treated at a local hospital; her relationship to Hawkins has not been disclosed. Homicide detectives with the Metropolitan Police Department opened an intensive investigation and have not identified any suspects. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

The motive and the events leading up to the shooting have not been released, and the case remains active. Did anyone in the community see or hear something on Banner Lane NW that night, or have information about Hawkins’ movements earlier that evening?