At approximately 2:20 am, on Saturday, January 20, 2007, Metropolitan Police were called to the Smarta/Broadway Club, located at 1919 9th Street, NW, for the report of a shooting.  Upon arrival, officers located 17-year-old Taleshia Ford, of the 1000 block of Jackson Street, NE, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest.  She was taken to the Howard University Hospital and pronounced dead at 2:55 am.

On January 29, 2007, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Acting Chief of Police Cathy Lanier announced that, as a result of a subsequent investigation, an arrest warrant was obtained charging 19-year-old Jameil MacKabee of Silver Spring, Maryland with Murder One While Armed in the shooting death of Talisha Ford. He was arrested without incident at approximately noon on January 29, 2007 by members of the Capital Area Fugitive Task Force comprised of members of the United States marshal’s Service and the Metropolitan Police Department.