A late‑afternoon shooting on September 5, 2023, in a Southwest Washington, D.C., apartment ended with 32-year-old Matthew Miller dead. Police say Miller was shot inside his residence on the 200 block of M Street SW during what they described as a robbery attempt; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident left six people either shot or injured overall. Another man in the apartment was shot and a third person was injured after falling from the building; both were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police reported that three men later arrived at a local hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and investigators concluded those men were the suspects in the shooting that killed Miller. Those three—22-year-old Keshawn Lavender, 27-year-old Deandre Sams, and 36-year-old Raymond Mathis—were arrested and charged with first-degree felony murder. A fourth man, 30-year-old Deandre Christian of Fort Washington, Maryland, was charged with assault with intent to kill for allegedly firing from a balcony in a retaliatory shooting after Miller’s death. All four defendants were arraigned and have pleaded not guilty; Lavender, Sams, and Mathis were scheduled for trial in the fall of 2025.

Police said the motive appears connected to drug dealing. If anyone knew Matthew Miller or has information about the events that afternoon, please come forward.