A late-night argument between roommates in District Heights turned deadly on November 9, 2023. Police say 41-year-old Harold James Roberts, Jr. was shot inside an apartment on the 6700 block of Alpine Street; officers arrived about 10:10 p.m. and found Roberts with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a nearby hospital and died there the next day, November 10, 2023.

Officers arrested Roberts’s 54-year-old roommate, Dwayne Houge, at the scene without incident. The Homicide Unit reports the shooting occurred during a dispute between the two men, and Houge was charged with first- and second-degree murder plus related counts and remanded to the Department of Corrections. The investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about what led to the dispute or was in the area that night, please share what is known with investigators.