The 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy just seconds after the teen stepped off a bus has been charged with murder.
Derryck Antjuan Decuir, 22, of Southeast D.C., has been charged with second-degree murder while armed and assault with intent to kill, the Metropolitan Police Department said in an update Wednesday.
D.C. police said they identified Decuir as a suspect due to tips and information received from the community. He was arrested Friday.
Police said Malik Mercer, 16, of Clinton, Maryland, was shot shortly after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 16, just seconds after stepping off a bus near the intersection of 28th Street and Naylor Road SE near his home, police said.
Sources told News4 Mercer stepped off the bus and was followed by a man who asked him for something. When the teen said he didn't have it, the man pulled out a gun and fired two shots into the teen's back.
Mercer was pronounced dead on Saturday.
In the wake of the shooting, police said they were seeking three persons of interest. Video distributed by D.C. police late Tuesday shows three men riding a bus.
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Longtime resident Sharon Wise said she heard the shots on Tuesday and then saw the teen in the grass.
"I just started praying," she said as she placed a plant at the scene of the crime later Tuesday.
The teen was shot just blocks from where reporter Charnice Milton, 27, was gunned down late last month. That case remains unsolved.
