A pre-dawn shooting on October 5, 2024, left the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington reeling. Officers found three people struck by gunfire on the 1600 block of Trinidad Avenue NE around 2:06 a.m. Thirty-three-year-old Najee Dickens, a District resident, was among those hit and later died at a nearby hospital. Two other adults, a man and a woman who were with Dickens, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were expected to survive.

The Metropolitan Police Department quickly classified the event as a homicide and opened an intensive investigation. Detectives publicly asked for help and offered a sizable reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, but no suspects had been identified and no arrests were announced in the immediate aftermath. The motive for the shooting remained unclear.

If anyone was in the area that night or has information about what led to this shooting, please contact the authorities.