Delonte Johnson, a 28-year-old man from Southeast Washington, D.C., was shot and killed on the afternoon of Friday, June 11, 2021. Officers responded around 1:39 p.m. to the 4600 block of Hillside Road, Southeast, after reports of gunfire and found two men with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to a local hospital; Johnson later died and the other victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch investigated and released surveillance images of a man they considered a suspect. That lead culminated in an arrest on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, when the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 31-year-old Joshua Calvin Allen of Suitland, Maryland on a D.C. Superior Court warrant; he was charged with First Degree Murder while Armed in connection with Johnson’s death. In November 2024 the prosecution offered Allen a plea to second-degree murder while armed plus an obstruction count, with other charges to be dismissed; a decision on the offer was expected by January 2025.

Anyone with information about Delonte Johnson, the shooting on Hillside Road, or who saw activity in that area around 1:39 p.m. on June 11, 2021, is asked to come forward.