Source: Office of United States Attorneys
WASHINGTON – Today, a jury sitting in Superior Court found Terrell Poe, 37, of Washington, D.C., guilty of first-degree murder while armed, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and unlawful possession of a firearm, in the September 2020 shooting death of Christopher Washington. The verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Pamela A. Smith, of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Superior Court Judge Michael O’Keefe scheduled sentencing for April 19, 2024.
According to the government’s evidence, at 2:24 p.m. in the afternoon on Wednesday, September 23, 2020, Christopher Washington, 30, of Washington, D.C., was waiting at the bus stop on Southern Avenue, SE when Poe pulled up in a stolen white pickup truck, got out of the truck with an assault rifle, and shot him to death. Just minutes earlier, in a local church parking lot, Poe had switched from his girlfriend’s car into the stolen pickup truck and gone looking for Mr. Washington. Poe passed Mr. Washington as he walked up Indian Head Highway in Maryland, then turned around and followed Mr. Washington, apparently losing sight of him, and then finding him again at the bus stop. After the murder, Poe returned to the church parking lot, dropped off the stolen truck and drove off in his girlfriend’s car.
Poe was arrested on October 5, 2020.
This case is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Peter V. Roman and Wes Faulkner.