On the morning of October 20, 2024, at about 8:47 a.m., officers from the Sixth District responded to the 1400 block of 18th Street Southeast after a reported vehicle crash. Inside a gray sedan they found 28-year-old Leonard Taylor Jr., of Suitland, Maryland, unconscious and not breathing with an apparent gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead after DC Fire and EMS arrived. Investigators determined the shooting occurred earlier in the 1500 block of 19th Street Southeast, and the case was ruled a homicide.

Authorities offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The investigation produced a suspect: on December 19, 2024, members of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 33-year-old Andre Clark in Baltimore on a DC Superior Court arrest warrant charging him with Second Degree Murder while Armed. Witness and physical evidence described Clark walking from a building on 19th Street SE, approaching Taylor in the parked sedan, pointing a firearm, and firing as Taylor began to drive away, striking him in the back.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the gray sedan or the interaction on 19th Street that morning?