In the early morning of Sunday, September 11, 2022, gunfire was reported in the 700 block of T Street NW in Washington, D.C. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third District arrived around 4:13 a.m. and found 50-year-old Stephon Jenkins, a Black man, unresponsive with apparent gunshot wounds. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services attempted life-saving measures but Jenkins was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The Homicide Branch opened an investigation. Detectives later identified a suspect; on November 9, 2022, members of the Criminal Apprehension Unit arrested 36-year-old Christopher Clanton of Northeast D.C. He was charged with First Degree Murder–Felony Murder in connection with Jenkins’s death. The investigation remains active.

If anyone has information about the shooting or saw activity on T Street NW that morning, please share what is known.