Crime: Zero Homicides, One Shooting Reported in Georgetown for 2025
By • September 15, 2025 0 366
By Aiden Mellon, D.C. Witness staff
As President Trump’s surge of law enforcement with the National Guard nears a month, questions remain about how it has helped Georgetown, and also how much it was needed.
From Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 of this year, there have been no reported homicides in the Georgetown neighborhood and one shooting, according to data gathered by D.C. Witness.
D.C. Witness gathered data for shootings and homicides in the 20008, 20007, 20057, and 20037 zip codes of DC’s Northwest quadrant and found that the number of homicides and shootings are both down from the same time last year, though data points are low for both years.
Last year, there were three reported homicides in the Georgetown neighborhood and 233 total homicides in DC. The reported Georgetown area homicides include Anvar Guliyev, 36, on the 1800 block of Wisconsin, NW., Deandre Pettus, 5, on the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue. NW, and Jounree Simone Moore, 18 months, at the 3700 block Connecticut Avenue.
Photo by Constance Chatfield-Taylor.
This year, there have been no reported homicides in the Georgetown area, compared to 122 reported homicides in DC as of Aug. 31.
Shootings in the Georgetown area have also comprised a small fraction of shootings city wide. Last year there were just two reported shootings in the Georgetown area, compared to 279 shootings city-wide in 2024. This year there has been one reported shooting in the Georgetown neighborhood on the 2300 block of 37th Street, NW, one fewer than at the same time last year.
The number of reported homicides and shootings in DC has fluctuated over the past few years, though reported homicides and shootings this year are down from 2023 and 2024 levels, according to data collected by D.C. Witness.
As of Sept 1. 2023, there were 168 reported homicides in DC. That number dropped to 135 reported homicides in 2024, and currently sits at 122 reported homicides for 2025, a decrease of about 37 percent from 2023.
The number of reported shootings city-wide increased from 2023 to 2024, from 188 to 212, but are down dramatically this year, at 127 shootings, a decrease of 40 percent, according to data gathered by D.C. Witness.
Earlier reporting from D.C. Witness has shown that violent crime in DC is down since the Aug. 7 deployment of the National Guard and the city-wide surge in federal law enforcement, though reported homicides and shootings in DC were already significantly lower than the past two years before the National Guard was deployed.
