At approximately 2:15 p.m. on Thursday August 31, 2000, First District officers responded to the 900 block of 14th Street SE. for the report of a shooting. On the scene, 20 year-old Charles Lasane of the 1800 block of P Street, SE, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his body. The victim was transported to D.C. General Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.

A short time later, a Metro bus driver noticed a bus passenger acting suspiciously on his bus. While in the 600 block of Pennsylvania Ave., NW, the driver activated his emergency notification signs on the exterior of the bus and pulled over to draw police attention to his bus. A marked United States Capitol Hill Police unit was in the area on an unrelated crime and took the suspicious man off the bus and into custody without any incident. Metropolitan Police Officers, arriving on the scene a short time later, arrested 18-year-old Daron McMillan, of an unknown address, and took him in for questioning on the recent 14th Street shooting.

On further investigation by First District Detectives, Mr. McMillian was arrested and charged with the homicide of Charles Lasane. The investigation into the circumstances of the shooting is continuing. Mr. McMillan is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow in D.C. Superior Court.