Seventeen-year-old Damari Deon Wright of Alexandria, Virginia, was shot and killed in Northeast Washington, D.C., on the evening of July 9, 2022. Metropolitan Police officers responding to reported gunfire found Wright inside a vehicle on the 3500 block of Hayes Street Northeast around 5:30 p.m.; D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services pronounced him dead at the scene and his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Investigators arrested two 18-year-olds the following month. On August 9, 2022, Marquelle Hodges and Kenneth Swann were each charged with second-degree murder while armed after arrests by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force on D.C. Superior Court warrants. In November 2022 both men accepted plea agreements: Swann pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed and Hodges pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact. The motive for the shooting has not been made public.

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