On the evening of Monday, January 10, 2022, gunshots were reported in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third District responded around 8:52 p.m. to the 1300 block of Columbia Road at 13th and Irving Street NW and found a man inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital but died; the victim was identified as 33-year-old Jerrame Watts, listed as having no fixed address. His death was recorded as the third homicide in the District that year.

Detectives from the Homicide Branch investigated the shooting and within ten days an arrest was made. On January 20, 2022, 21-year-old Darnell Crawford of Northwest D.C. was arrested and charged with second-degree murder while armed in connection with Watts’s death. The Metropolitan Police Department had offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

If anyone knew Jerrame Watts or has information about the events that night, please share what you know.