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Fatal Shooting Ends D.C.’s 12-Day No-Homicide Streak Under Federal Control

Police records show longer murder-free stretches earlier in 2025, challenging claims that the pause was unprecedented.

Members of the National Guard patrol the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Monday, August 25, 2025.
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Overview

  • The Metropolitan Police Department said officers responded around 12:24 a.m. Tuesday to a shooting in Southeast D.C., where an adult male later died at a hospital.
  • The killing ended a 12-day span without a reported homicide that began after President Trump took control of the city’s police on Aug. 11 and the National Guard deployment followed.
  • Police data document a 16-day run without a killing from Feb. 25 to March 12 and two separate seven-day stretches in April and May.
  • U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro touted the lull on Monday, citing 1,007 arrests and 111 illegal guns seized since the federalization.
  • Preliminary MPD figures list 101 homicides so far this year versus 118 at the same point in 2024, with officials cautioning the counts can be revised.