WUSA 9 NewsWASHINGTON — A fourth man has been sentenced in the deadly shooting of a 13-year-old boy in D.C. in 2020.
Aaron Brown, 29, was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for his role in Malachi Lukes' death . He was sentenced after pleading guilty to assault with intent to kill while armed.
Brown was part of a group of five men tied to a string of violent shootings connected to neighborhood gang conflicts that escalated into deadly retaliation. On March 1, 2020, Brown was a part of two back-to-back shootings. In the first, the men began got out of a stolen Kia Soul and began shooting at Lukes and three friends after following them, who were walking to go play basketball on the 600 block of S Street NW. As he ran away, the men shot Lukes in the back. Just ten minutes later, they shot at peo