Crime In Store! Brazen Supermarket Shooting Leads to 7-Year Sentence for DC Teen

Washington, USA —

Ivan Dixon, 19, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to seven years in prison today for the September 2023 shooting deaths of two victims outside a neighborhood store in Southeast Washington, D.C., as confirmed by Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department Pamela A. Smith and U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves.

Dixon entered a guilty plea in March 2024 to one count of assault with the intent to kill, one count of possessing a firearm during a violent crime, and one count of carrying a pistol without a license in a separate case in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Dixon received a sentence of 84 months in prison, which is the maximum amount allowed by Judge Robert Okun for assault with the intent to murder. Three years of supervised release will come next.

Dixon accepted the credibility of the government’s case, which stated that he was inside a Ford Transit van when one of the victims—who was also supposed to be his intended target—parked his vehicle outside the supermarket.

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The van turned around and drove slowly past the supermarket as the intended target entered. It then circled the block and parked behind the target’s vehicle.

The target eventually left the supermarket after a short period, and the second victim—an innocent bystander—came closer to the front door. Dixon leaped out of the van and fired sixteen shots in the direction of the target while the target held the door open for the onlooker.

The bystander was struck five times and sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, but the intended target was not hit.

Chief Smith and U.S. Attorney Graves praised the work of the Metropolitan Police Department investigators on the case. William Lawrence, an assistant U.S. attorney, was also honored for his efforts in pursuing the case.