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Birthday Celebration Turns Deadly: Teen To Be Tried As Adult In DC Man's Murder

The 16-year-old who brought a gun to a fist fight will be tried as an adult for a murder in Northwest DC earlier this year.

Photos were released of the wanted shooting suspect earlier this year.

Photos were released of the wanted shooting suspect earlier this year.

Photo Credit: Metropolitan Police Department

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide.

Photo Credit: Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department
Diamonte Lewis

Diamonte Lewis

Photo Credit: Metropolitan Police Department

Alexandria, VA's Ashton Inabinet was arrested on Wednesday, Dec. 5 and charged for his role in the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Diamonte Lewis in October, local and federal officials said.

It happened in front of Nellie's Sports Bar on U Street NW around 3 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21. Gunshots rang out in the 900 block of U Street near the intersection of 9th Street NW, and when officers arrived, they found Lewis suffering from a fatal gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A second person was also reportedly involved but has not been identified or apprehended.

Lewis was celebrating his birthday that night, according to NBC Washington.

Inabinet, a West Potomac High School student in Alexandria, was arraigned and charged with second-degree murder while armed in DC Superior Court. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bond pending a preliminary hearing scheduled next week on Wednesday, Dec. 13. 

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