A D.C. Superior Court jury found 20-year-old Malik Holston guilty of chasing down and fatally shooting Gerald Watson.
Assistant U.S. attorneys Michael C. Liebman and Andrea Coronado argued that on the afternoon of Dec. 13, 2018, Watson — who was 16 years old at the time — and another teen chased Gerald through a courtyard of a D.C. apartment complex.
Gerald, prosecutors and witnesses said, tried to escape by ducking into an apartment building on Knox Place SE. Police said Holston and another suspect cornered Gerald in a stairwell. Authorities said a witness overheard the high school freshman scream, “Help me! Open the door!” Authorities said the shooting was connected to a neighborhood dispute among the teens, who lived less than half a mile apart.
The other person who detectives alleged was involved in the fatal shooting was killed a year later, in 2019. Holston, who was also found guilty of several weapons charges, is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 26 by Judge Rainey R. Brandt.
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