On the afternoon of March 22, 2024, gunfire was reported in a Southeast Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Officers from the Seventh District searched the area and found 29-year-old Dimitrious Tre’von Brown of Northeast, D.C., unconscious and not breathing from a gunshot wound on the 2800 block of Hartford Street, Southeast. D.C. Fire and EMS pronounced him dead at the scene, and the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch took over the investigation.

Investigators later arrested 21-year-old Monteze Morton of Southeast, D.C., on May 16, 2024, on a D.C. Superior Court warrant charging him with First Degree Murder while Armed in connection with Brown’s death. Court documents say the confrontation began during an argument when Brown allegedly tried to strike a person who had been Morton's ex-girlfriend and that Morton then shot Brown. At a June 27, 2024 hearing a judge found probable cause for the murder charge, rejecting the defense claim of self-defense; Morton is being held without bond awaiting trial.

If anyone saw the shooting or knew Brown’s movements that afternoon, please share information with investigators.