On the early morning of Friday, November 11, 2016, nineteen-year-old Rassaan Jennings, a Black male from Southeast Washington, D.C., was shot and killed on the steps of a building at the Stanton Glen Apartments in the 3000 block of Stanton Road SE. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Seventh District heard gunfire around 1:27 to 1:30 a.m. and found Jennings and another resident, Samuelle Buie, unconscious with apparent gunshot wounds. Both were transported to separate hospitals and pronounced dead that night; authorities investigated the scene as a double homicide centered on the apartment entrance.

The shooting occurred amid other city gun violence that same night, and police did not initially determine whether an earlier nearby shooting was connected. A large street memorial of candles, flowers, and messages was created at the spot, described locally as an In God’s Hands shrine that has been tended over time. Public case listings mark Rassaan’s killing as unsolved with suspect details unknown and no arrest disclosed. If anyone knew Rassaan, Samuelle, or saw activity around Stanton Road that night, please share information that could help the investigation.