At approximately 10:54 pm on Sunday, February 26, 2006, police were called to the 200 block of 37th Place, SE, to investigate the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located 43-year-old Ivory Campbell suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to the Howard University Hospital and pronounced dead. 
 
On Thursday, October 11, 2007, members of the department's Violent Crimes Branch charged 21-year-old Purnell Jackson, of the 5000 block of Banks Place, NE, and 27-year-old Pernell Jackson of the 1800 block of Kendell Street, NE, with Murder One While Armed in connection with the fatal shooting of Ivory Campbell.