19 year old Jeffrey Yarnell Covington shot dead in Washington, DC

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the fatal shooting which occurred in the 600 block of 46th Place, SE.

On Saturday July 2, 2011, at approximately 1:30 am, units from the Sixth District responded to shooting in the 600 block of 46th Place, SE. Upon arriving on the scene, officers located an adult male victim suffering from a gunshot wound. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel transported the victim to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injury and was pronounced dead.

The decedent has been identified as 19 year-old Jeffrey Yarnell Covington of Upper Marlboro, Md.