The Metropolitan Police Department has announced that an arrest has been made in the homicide of Darren Lamont Byas who was fatally shot in the 3500 block of 7th Street, SE on January 9, 2009. On Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 5:45 pm members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 23-year-old Curtis Tyrell Bunn, of Northeast, Washington, DC. Mr. Bunn was charged with First Degree Murder While Armed in connection with this case.
At approximately 8:58 pm, on Friday, January 9, 2009, members of the department’s Seventh District and DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department personnel responded to a residence located in the 3500 block of 7th Street, SE for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, they located 38-year-old Darren Lamont Byas, of the same address, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the body. He was subsequently pronounced dead on the scene by a representative of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia.