A road-rage shooting in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C., left 28-year-old Rasheek Abdullah critically wounded on January 30, 2024. Abdullah, working as an Uber Eats driver, was shot in the neck while inside his vehicle at the intersection of Q Street and Connecticut Avenue Northwest. The shooter, 58-year-old Rodney Baggott, reportedly became enraged after believing Abdullah had cut him off, drove alongside Abdullah, produced a firearm and fired a single shot. Baggott fled the scene with his girlfriend still in the passenger seat.

Abdullah was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and died on April 29, 2024. Investigators tied Baggott to the attack partly by distinctive damage to his white Mitsubishi Outlander; that damage was reportedly taken to an auto body shop for repair shortly after a police bulletin described the vehicle. A traffic stop on March 2, 2024, led to Baggott’s arrest for illegal possession of a firearm, and the next day a search warrant at his girlfriend’s apartment produced the handgun used in the shooting, with DNA on the weapon linking both occupants.

The case was initially handled as an Assault with Intent to Kill charge on April 15, 2024, with prosecutors planning to upgrade charges after Abdullah’s death. Anyone with information about Abdullah, the shooting, or the white Mitsubishi Outlander is asked to come forward.