WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- A 21-year-old man will spend the next 15 years in federal prison for fatally shooting a man in Northeast D.C., the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia announced Friday. Shannon Updike, of Washington D.C., pled guilty in December 2024 to one count of second-degree murder while armed. Maryland man sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for killing woman The USAO stated that on May 27, 2024, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) responded to reports of an incident around 2:30 p.m. in the 4000 block of Minnesota Ave. Police say a man, later identified as Chidzie Njoku, 23, was found unconscious and not breathing. He was pronounced dead on the scene. According to the USAO, Updike used a homemade purple assault rifle to shoot Njoku twice at close range before running away from the scene. After a brief chase with MPD, Updike was arrested and his firearm was seized by officers. ...read more read less