On the night of Friday, December 10, 2021, at about 10:04 pm, gunfire erupted in the hallway of an apartment building on 4th Street in Northeast Washington, D.C. Thirty-four-year-old Davon Childs, a resident of the city, was shot and killed; another person was struck but survived. The Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation and sought the public’s help in identifying witnesses or information about the shooting.

Investigators later identified a suspect, 47-year-old Dejuan Bell of Washington, D.C., and charged him with the murder of Davon Childs. According to the charging account, Bell fired a 9mm semi-automatic handgun at least seven times toward the two unarmed victims.

Anyone who was in that building or nearby that night or who has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.