On the evening of Memorial Day, May 25, 2020, gunfire erupted in the 1400 block of Fairmont Street Northwest, Columbia Heights. Officers arriving about 6:21 p.m. found two young men unconscious and unresponsive from gunshot wounds in front of an apartment complex. Both were taken to a local hospital.

One victim, 22-year-old Christopher Beckwith Jr., died that day. The other, 19-year-old Willie Leon Brown Jr., a Northwest, D.C., resident, remained in critical condition and died at the hospital on Saturday, May 30, 2020. His death was ruled a homicide, the second fatality from the incident.

The Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Branch is investigating the double homicide. No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified and a reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction. If anyone has information about the shooting, please come forward.