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<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" id="main-content" style="color:#443d3d"><strong>24-year-old male suspect from Washington DC man charged in two slayings which were committed 12 months apart </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" id="main-content" style="color:#443d3d"><strong>One murder was perpetrated in DC from Saturday, another from 12 months prior </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" id="main-content" style="color:#443d3d"><strong>Suspect, Javon Duckwilder, of SE Washington DC, was taken into custody at the scene on preliminary charges of first degree murder </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" id="main-content" style="color:#443d3d"><strong>Duckwilder, 24, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder while armed, Sunday </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" id="main-content" style="color:#443d3d"><strong>He&#8217;s accused of shooting Juwan Smith, 23, who was found unconscious about 8:15 p.m. Saturday in SE. Washington, later pronounced dead in a DC hospital </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" id="main-content" style="color:#443d3d"><strong>Duckwilder is also charged in the death of Alexander Nwogu, 23, who was shot at a NW Washington gas station, on Oct. 5, 2020. </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" id="main-content" style="color:#443d3d"><strong>Nwogu had graduated five months earlier with honors in systems engineering from Virginia Tech </strong></h1>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Alexander-Nwogu-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393359" width="800" height="775"/><figcaption><strong>Freshly minted Virginia Tech grad Alexander Nwogu, [photo], was bludgeoned and fatally shot of along Connecticut Avenue NW Washington DC on Oct. 5, 2020. One year later Javon Duckwilder, of SE Washington has been charged in his killing</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>D.C. police have linked the suspect of a Saturday night homicide to a slaying 12 months ago of a recent Virginia Tech graduate who was killed at a 24-hour Shell gas station. <br>Javon Duckwilder, 24, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder while armed, officials said Sunday. <br>He is accused of shooting Juwan Smith, 23, who was found unconscious about 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the 2800 block of Alabama Avenue SE. Smith, of Southeast Washington, was taken to a hospital where he later was pronounced dead, according to police officials. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Will-Ventura-left-Chris-Bato-center-and-Alexander-Nwogu-right-1-1024x602.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393364"/><figcaption><strong>Fraternity brothers Will Ventura [left], Chris Batto [center] and Alexander Nwogu [right] racing towards the finishing line as members of the graduating class of 2020 at Virginia Tech. Five months later Nwogu was murdered</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>As a result of that investigation, police said, Duckwilder also was charged in the death of Alexander Nwogu, 23, on Oct. 5, 2020. Early that morning, Nwogu was at the Shell gas station in the 4900 block of Connecticut Avenue NW at Fessenden Street, when he was killed, police said. <br>Nwogu suffered blunt trauma to the back of his head and a single gunshot wound to the middle of his back, according to a police report, and was pronounced dead at the scene. <br>Nwogu recently had earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering at Virginia Tech, a spokesman for the school said at the time. His friends said had just started working at a consulting firm in Northern Virginia. <br>“He had a beautiful soul and he would have done a lot in this world. He was taken way too soon from us. It’s not fair,” Nwogu’s fraternity brother William Ventura said in an interview last year <br>The Roanoke Times had featured Nwogu in <a href="https://roanoke.com/news/education/online-is-the-only-way-to-go-seniors-graduate-virginia-tech-amid-pandemic/article_7538bc6c-b718-5611-9889-c9f873b21f66.html">an article last year</a> about college seniors having to forgo a traditional graduation because of the coronavirus pandemic. <br>Nwogu Angelo told the newspaper that his father, an officer in the Nigerian army, had planned to travel to the United States for the graduation but canceled when the in-person ceremony was called off. <br>“To lose that experience is heartbreaking,” Nwogu said at the time. <br>After Duckwilder&#8217;s arrest and interview after Saturday&#8217;s shooting, police now say they have enough evidence to charge him with the killing of Alexander Nwogu. <br>His first appearance in D.C. Superior Court is scheduled for Monday. <br></p>

DC man, 24, charged in two slayings a year apart by Washington DC police – Javon Duckwilder shot Juwan Smith on Saturday, and recent college graduate, Alex Nwogu, at a Northwest DC gas station in Oct. 2020
