D.C.’s nearly two-week stretch without a homicide during the federal law enforcement surge came to an end early Tuesday, when a man was fatally shot.
The District had not recorded a homicide since Aug. 13, a few days after President Donald Trump declared a federal crime emergency on Aug. 11.
D.C. police said officers responded at 12:25 a.m. Tuesday to a shooting in the 300 block of Anacostia Road SE.
The man who’d been shot was still breathing and taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
He was identified as Franck Foute Mohdjiom, 31, of Southeast D.C.
While some areas east of the Anacostia River have had some federal agents carrying out arrests, the neighborhood where the shooting occurred is far from the National Mall and other tourist areas of D.C., where close to 2