Incident Information 2018

2018: 161**

2018: Type and Quadrant of Incident,
and Quadrant of Victim Residence

Type of Incident

shooting: 128
officer-involved shooting: 2
stabbing: 23
trauma/assault: 8

Quadrant of Incident

Northeast: 51
Southeast: 84
Northwest: 17
Southwest: 9

Quadrant of Victim Residence

Northeast: 35
Southeast: 79
Southwest: 6
Northwest: 8
Non-District: 24
No fixed address: 9


**In addition to the homicides listed above:

  • two 1985 deaths were re-classified as homicide in 2018
  • three skeletal remains were discovered 4/25 at 100 block of Wayne Place, SE, ruled homicides, and identified on 8/15/18 as three women each reported lost in 2006:
    • 48-year-old Jewel King, of Southwest, DC
      who was reported missing on Thursday, April 13, 2006
    • 41-year-old Verdell Jefferson, of Southeast, DC
      who was reported missing on Tuesday, August 1, 2006
    • 43-year-old Dorothy Butts, of Southeast, DC
      who was reported missing on Monday, December 25, 2006
  • the May 4 death of Jeffrey Wayne Price, resulting from a police-involved crash, is listed by MPD as traffic fatality, not homicide.