WASHINGTON — A D.C. man charged with shooting and killing a bystander near the Shaw Metro Station was identified with the help of a Secret Service informant and had been injured in another recent shooting.
Marcus King, 19 of R Street, is part of the “8th & R crew,” and was shot in the neck near the Kennedy Recreation Center more than a week before the Aug. 15 afternoon shooting that killed 23-year-old Matthew Shlonsky, according to charging documents.
King turned himself into police early Friday morning. He is charged with second-degree murder.
The documents, obtained by NBC Washington, say that a Secret Service agent with information from a confidential informant called D.C. homicide detectives to tell them what he learned. The documents say the informant named King as the shooter and provided the address where King’s mother lived.
The informant also said that King had argued with someone who is from the 7th Street and O Street area, which is just a few blocks from where King lives.
The documents say King admitted to police that he fired multiple shots in the direction where Shlonsky was getting out of a taxi cab, intending to hit someone in a burgundy car that was driving by. King told police that he did warn “some people to get out of the way” before he began firing.
Witnesses told police that they heard someone yell “Get out of the way!” before the shooting began.
Police found 18, .40 caliber brass and silver shell casings, plus a bullet and several bullet fragments scattered across the intersection and sidewalks of 7th and S streets.
An autopsy report found that a single bullet hit Shlonsky in the chest near his armpit, crossing through his heart and both lungs before exiting out the other side of his chest and hitting his arm.
The death of Shlonsky, an American University graduate, has outraged Shaw residents, who have say that police have turned a blind eye to open-air drug dealing and gambling in the rapidly redeveloping neighborhood.
