Niko Hall, Second Degree Murder, Washington 2020

Niko Hall, 33, of Washington, DC, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for second degree murder while armed for shooting and killing a man on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget Fitzpatrick and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department.

On Saturday, September 26, 2020, Hall and his co-defendants, Kyrie Wells and Darquise Montgomery, murdered Anthony Lee, 25, by shooting him in the back as Mr. Lee walked away from them, apparently unaware of the danger he was in.

According to the government’s evidence, at around 11:22 p.m., as Mr. Lee and a companion walked south on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Hall came out of the Mellon Market with his handgun drawn and joined the two other men. The three of them lined up across the sidewalk, after one of them cleared potential witnesses out of the way.

The gunmen then opened fire on Mr. Lee and his companion from behind. There had been no interaction between the victims and their assailants before the shooting and the victims were unarmed. Hall was the first to begin shooting and the last to stop. He opened fire on a busy street, with multiple witnesses present, in front of busy Saturday commercial traffic.

After Mr. Lee was shot, he fell to the ground. One of the co-defendants, apparently acting in concert with the defendant and armed with an assault rifle, opened fire on Mr. Lee’s companion, firing at least 13 times.

Hall was arrested almost exactly a month later, on October 20, 2020, and has been in custody ever since. In announcing the sentence, Acting U.S. Attorney Fitzpatrick and Chief Smith commended the work of those who investigated the case from the Metropolitan Police Department.

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