Metropolitan Police Department (DC Police / MPD)

The Metropolitan Police Department released body cam video of the shooting of Justin Robinson on September 1. News4’s Paul Wagner reports. 

After a man and a group of middle-school-aged girls beat a 64-year-old man to death in D.C. this fall, the girls walked away in a “celebratory” mood, a detective testified that video footage shows. Reggie Brown died after he was brutally assaulted on Georgia Avenue NW early the morning of Oct. 17, 2023. A Metropolitan Police Department detective described him…

Two women testified they heard screams before finding Reggie Brown beaten and bloodied in an alleyway. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Authorities say they now know the name of a man who hid a gun in a D.C. storm drain before a veteran officer went to retrieve it last week, the gun fired and the officer was killed.

A man who worked as a violence interrupter was shot and killed by D.C. officers early Sunday after police say he crashed into a McDonald’s in Southeast, refused to drop a gun and then grabbed an officer’s gun.

D.C. police identified the man who officers shot and killed outside a McDonald’s in Southeast early Sunday.

Dozens gathered in Northeast D.C. to honor Investigator Wayne David, who was shot and killed when removing a gun from a storm drain.

Two D.C. officers shot and killed a man who they say was armed with a gun and reached for their weapons. This unfolded just before 5:30 a.m. Sunday outside a fast food restaurant on Marion Barry Avenue SE, in the Skyland neighborhood. When police arrived, the scene was relatively calm, and there was not a lot of damage to...

D.C. Police shot and killed a man sleeping in a car who appeared to have a weapon. News4’s Derrick Ward reports. 

A man is dead after an officer-involved shooting in Southeast D.C. early Sunday morning. Police responded to a report of a car that crashed into the McDonald’s on Marion Barry Avenue at 5:30 a.m. There was minimal damage to the McDonald’s. According to police, the man in the vehicle had a gun in his lap. Chief Pamela Smith said...

One man is dead after a police-involved shooting in Southeast D.C. At 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning, police responded to a car crash on Marion Barry Avenue at the McDonald’s. According to police, the man in the vehicle had a weapon. News4’s Derrick Ward reports. 

A former police officer in Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to five years in prison for fatally shooting a 27-year-old man who had been sleeping in the driver’s seat of a car stopped at a traffic light. Former Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Enis Jevric pleaded guilty in February to involuntary manslaughter and using excessive force in the August 2021 shooting...

Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies escorted David’s body from the medical examiner’s office to a funeral home. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Outside the police department’s Special Operations Division, a memorial was growing around his police cruiser, which was covered in an array of photos and vibrant bouquets of flowers.

News’s Mark Segraves and Paul Wagner report. (CORRECTION: Investigator Wayne David was incorrectly referred to as “inspector” in this report. News4 sincerely apologizes for the mistake.)

Investigator Wayne David, 52, served on MPD for 25 years and had been a part of the Violent Crimes Suppression Division since 2007. He recovered hundreds of guns across the city.

The D.C. police investigator who died after trying to retrieve a gun from a storm drain Wednesday worked in the Violent Crime Suppression Unit. News4’s Molette Green reports on what police know about the search for the man accused of dumping the gun and how the police department is remembering him.

Non-U.S. citizens are helping MPD maintain its staff. News4’s Mark Segraves talked to two officers hired through the department’s new program.

An MPD officer is dead after a gun was dropped in a storm drain by a suspicious man, and the gun went off as the officer tried to retrieve it. News4’s Jackie Bensen and Derrick Ward report.

An officer was struck when a gun fired as police attempted to retrieve it from a storm drain on I-295 in Northeast D.C.