On Thanksgiving evening, November 25, 2021, 25-year-old Lavonte McCloud was shot and killed in the 1600 block of Kenilworth Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. Police were called about 9:38 p.m.; emergency medical personnel transported McCloud to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The death followed a domestic dispute that escalated after a woman who had children with both McCloud and another man called that man, identified in court documents as 31-year-old Christian Johnson, to deliver a child to McCloud’s apartment. McCloud intervened to calm the argument; moments after the woman went back inside, gunshots were heard and McCloud was found wounded.

Witnesses reported a tense relationship between the two men. Detectives named Johnson as the suspect and he was arrested on December 15, 2021, charged with first-degree murder while armed and arraigned; preliminary court proceedings have been held and at one point he was released to home confinement. McCloud is listed in a police database as an associate of a local group known as the Kenilworth Crew.

If anyone has information about that night or about McCloud’s relationships in the neighborhood, please come forward.