Detectives with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch announced an arrest had been made in the fatal shooting of a woman on January 1. Around 1:18 a.m. on January 1, 2024, Second District officers responded to the 4300 block of Military Road Northwest after receiving a report of a shooting.

At the scene, officers found a woman inside a hotel room with gunshot wounds. The victim, who was later identified as 18-year-old Ashlei Hinds, succumbed to her injuries at the scene. On January 2, 2024, authorities arrested 18-year-old Jelani Cousin who is charged with Second Degree Murder while Armed.