Fifteen-year-old Malachi Jackson was shot and killed on the night of Monday, April 11, 2022, at about 10:50 pm in the 3000 block of 13th Street NW in Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. His family said he had gone out for a late-night jog when he was gunned down, making him the city’s youngest homicide victim at that point in the year.

Malachi was a freshman at Roosevelt High School and described by teachers and peers as a motivated, honors student. Family members remembered him as a loving, bright kid with athletic interests: he had trained as a boxer since age seven and played defensive end for the Deanwood Rec Center football team. His grandmother suggested he had recently moved to the neighborhood and was targeted after refusing pressure to take part in illicit activity.

A 16-year-old male was arrested on May 10, 2022, and charged as an adult; surveillance footage was cited in identifying the suspect. What details about motive, witnesses, or further legal outcomes remain unclear to the public. Does anyone who knew Malachi or who was in Columbia Heights that night have information that could help?