Washington, D.C.’s no-homicide streak ended early on Tuesday with a shooting death in the southeast quadrant.
Police said a man was found with a gunshot wound at 12:24 a.m. Tuesday — he was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died. The death ends the Trump administration’s vaunted zero-homicide streak, which began on Aug. 13, two days after President Donald Trump announced his federalization of the capital and one day after the deployment of the National Guard.
With Tuesday’s murder, the capital accomplished a 12-day no-murder streak, one of its best in years.
The murder broke the streak before it could set a record, however. Police data show that Washington experienced a 16-day no-homicide streak from Feb. 25 to March 12, the longest span in six years. There were two weeklong streaks of no homicides in April and May, Newsweek reported.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, celebrated Washington’s 12-day no-homicide streak on Monday in a post on X. She said police had made 1,007 arrests and taken 111 illegal guns off the streets since Trump’s federalization.
JEANINE PIRRO CELEBRATES 12 DAYS OF NO HOMICIDES AFTER TRUMP DC CRIME CRACKDOWN
Official stats have crime at a downturn this year, though Republicans claim they are being altered. Trump said the matter was being investigated.
Official data show 2023 as the year with the most murders in the capital since 1997, with 274 homicides.