WASHINGTON — An investigation is underway in Southeast D.C. after a man was stabbed and killed early Monday, according to police.
Officers with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) responded to Halley Terrace Southeast, South Capitol Street Southeast, shortly after midnight after a report of a stabbing in the area. At the scene, they found a man suffering from a stab wound.
Authorities immediately began to administer life-saving measures on the victim, but he was pronounced dead at the location. The man was later identified as 45-year-old Damien Thompson of Ft. Washington, Maryland.
Shortly after the stabbing was initially reported, detectives investigating the case arrested 28-year-old Michael Caldwell of Southeast D.C. Police have charged Caldwell with second-degree murder while armed.
Just before the start of the weekend, on June 2, MPD reported 94 homicide cases in 2023, which is a 15% increase from the year before. In 2022, by the same time period, 82 homicides were accounted for.