Just after midnight on Monday, December 20, 2021, police responded to a shooting at an apartment in the 1400 block of P Street Northwest near Logan Circle and found two men dead from gunshot wounds. Victims were 25-year-old Johnny Coles of Northwest, D.C., and 27-year-old Nycholas Hester of Houston, Texas. Both were pronounced dead at the scene on the second floor of the DeSoto Apartments.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch reported that the men exchanged gunfire and investigators believe the confrontation may have started during an attempted robbery, with one man trying to rob the other. Because both men died from the injuries they inflicted on each other, there were no suspects identified or arrested and the case remained open.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.