DC ties last year's homicide numbers following deadly midday shooting
WASHINGTON () — Tuesday's midday deadly shooting was the latest in what has already been a violent past few weeks in the District.
In the early morning hours, a — less than 24 hours after a left one man dead and two others hospitalized. Hours later and in the middle of the day on Tuesday, a woman was shot and killed in Southeast D.C.
Just two days into the last week of May, many people in D.C. have expressed concern over what has been a tragic month, with over a dozen shootings in which someone was hurt or killed. Though many have been classified as homicides, in one case, a and died while filming a video for social media.
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One double shooting gained international attention after a .
As the month comes to an end, many eyes are on the District.
'Unfortunately, we are seeing too many — and I'll emphasize too many — inter-personal conflicts where the results are the production of firearms to resolve these conflicts,' D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith on May 27 regarding the recent violence in the District.
In the past four weeks, there have been more than 200 violent crimes — 19 of which were homicides (as of 4 p.m. on May 27). Seven of those homicides happened in a five-day span, according to .
Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (with any or no weapon) offenses remain down year-to-date — a positive trend, comparatively.
Though when compared to 2024 data, the gap gets slimmer with every incident. A somber tie to last year's numbers, as of just before 1 p.m. on May 27, the District reached the same number of homicides as 2024.
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Since the beginning of the year — as of May 27, 2025 — there have been 69 homicides in the District, compared to 69 as of May 27, 2024, according to OpenDataDC and Tuesday's two deadly shootings.
Smith said the shootings — fatal and non-fatal — over the past few weeks have been a result of conflict between people who know each other.
'I spent all weekend looking at every single case with my team. We broke it down from top to bottom, and what we're seeing is really just individual conflict,' she said.
'My message to the community is this: We have to resolve conflict much better than the way we're resolving conflict,' Smith said.
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She pleaded with people to reach out to police about interpersonal conflicts so that they can provide families with the resources they need to resolve issues without violence.
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