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The life of Marcus Wallace, a 36-year-old Black man from Northeast, D.C., was cut short on a Saturday evening in the fall of 2020. On November 21, at approximately 9:05 p.m., officers from the Metropolitan Police Department responded to reports of a shooting in the 1400 block of L Street, Southeast. Inside a residential building, they found Marcus Wallace suffering from what one report described as 15 gunshot wounds. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel arrived at the scene, but Wallace showed no signs of life and was pronounced dead.

The investigation led to an arrest the following month. On December 23, 2020, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 21-year-old Antonio Deshaun Gladden of Southeast, D.C., charging him with first-degree murder while armed. Gladden, who was also prosecuted under the name Deshaun Gaskins, was released into home confinement in April 2021. Ultimately, prosecutors dismissed the case against him, and no one else has been charged in connection with the killing.

Investigators believe Wallace’s death may have triggered a deadly act of retribution. Less than two months after his murder, on January 19, 2021, 34-year-old Tyrone Wright was shot and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Hayes Street, Northeast. Detectives alleged that Wallace’s own brother, Ronald Wallace, 48, and his cousin, Deangelo Glover, 30, targeted Wright because they believed he was responsible for Marcus’s death. Both Ronald Wallace and Deangelo Glover were later charged with first-degree murder while armed for the killing of Tyrone Wright.

With the charges against the only person arrested for his death having been dismissed, the murder of Marcus Wallace remains officially unsolved as of April 2022. The Metropolitan Police Department offers a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible. Anyone with information is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099 or submit an anonymous tip by texting 50411.