What Washington, DC’s Tyriq Jamal Williams, Keith Williams did outside Navy Yard Metro Station

Tyriq Jamal Williams, 32, of Northwest, Washington, D.C, United States and a female companion exited a Green Line Metro train at the Navy Yard Station in Southeast, Washington, D.C. on January 7, 2023. They encountered Terry Clark, 20, of Southeast there.

While bouncing on the stairs, Clark made a fist-pumping gesture with his right hand. At the station exit, Williams separated from his companion and waited next to a cement column until Clark walked by him. 

Williams allegedly approached Clark and shot him once in the head before turning and walking away in the direction of his companion. Without the companion, Williams returned to the Metro alone and boarded it again at the station.

At around 7:55 p.m., police officers found Clark lying on the sidewalk unconscious and unresponsive in front of the Metro station entrance and found a single 9 mm casing a few feet south of his body. At 8:05 p.m., he was pronounced dead.

On January 20, 2023, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Williams. On January 31, 2023, DC Superior Court Judge Anthony Epstein found in a preliminary hearing that there was substantial probability that a jury could convict Williams of murder.

The Washington Metro is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The Green Line, a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, has 21 stations including the Navy Yard Station.

On May 28, 2023, Keith Nathaniel Williams, 23, of Southeast allegedly shot Brendan Ofori, 17, of Fort Washington, Maryland, USA outside to the Navy Yard Station. At around 11:45 a.m., the Metro Transit Police Department and the Metropolitan Police Department responded to the station for a report of a shooting on a train.

Ofori was found on the station’s platform with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene. On June 9, 2023, the Metropolitan Police Department announced that Keith has been charged with murder for his role in the fatal shooting Ofori.

On July 6, 2023, Epstein found probable cause that Keith committed murder. On October 18, 2023, an indictment was filed in Superior Court in the District of Columbia, charging Tyriq with first-degree murder.