On the afternoon of March 15, 2020, 18-year-old Naseem Simpson was shot multiple times in the 3000 block of 14th Street Northwest in Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. Officers arrived after reports of gunfire at about 3:11 p.m.; Simpson, a Northwest, D.C., resident, died from his wounds despite emergency treatment.

Investigators developed a suspect and on March 26, 2020 the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 19-year-old Khamari Perkins of Southeast, D.C., on a D.C. Superior Court warrant. Perkins was charged with First Degree Murder While Armed; court filings stated he had been a friend of Simpson and was on supervised release with a court-issued GPS device at the time of the shooting.

Perkins later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 156 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Eight family members delivered victim impact statements at sentencing. If anyone knew Naseem or has information about his life in Columbia Heights, please come forward.