In the morning hours of a late summer day, 27-year-old Kajuan Deris Young, a male resident of Southwest Washington, D.C., was fatally wounded by gunfire. The incident occurred around 11 a.m. on Friday, September 21, 2018, in the 900 block of 3rd Street SW, a location not far from the Southwest Neighborhood Library. Emergency services were dispatched to the scene where they found Young suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Young’s death was part of a particularly violent weekend in the nation's capital, during which several other homicides were reported. The Metropolitan Police Department investigated the shooting as one of a number of violent crimes that occurred in a short span of time across the city. The shooters in Young's case, as well as in another fatal shooting that weekend, were reported to be at large in the immediate aftermath.
The month of September 2018 saw a significant increase in homicides in Washington, D.C., with Young's death being one of twenty such cases. While law enforcement officials were able to make arrests in nearly half of the homicides that occurred during that month, there have been no public online reports detailing any arrests or the identification of any specific suspects in connection with the shooting of Kajuan Deris Young. His case was highlighted as one of several unsolved killings from that violent period in the city.
