Jabrell Young dies in Northeast D.C. shooting; police alert names twin brother

The account of a teenage boy’s fatal shooting inside a Northeast Washington home now has two names and a family connection: Jabrell Young died, and a police alert identified the teenager officers wanted to find as his twin brother, Jamari Young. Those details make the loss more personal, but they do not explain what happened inside the residence—or establish who fired the shot. ^{1 2}

The shooting occurred Sunday, October 25, 2026, in the 200 block of 46th Street NE. The latest documented search account, a WJLA report updated the following morning, still described police seeking a teenager. No later case-specific arrest or charge has been established in the information available for this report. That leaves an important distinction: the search was reported on October 26; its status since then is not confirmed. ^{1 2}

Police said officers responded at about 8:36 a.m. Sunday and found Jabrell unconscious and not breathing, with a gunshot wound. That is the approximate time officers responded, not a verified time when the weapon was fired. WJLA reported that officers found him inside a residence; no individual house number has been confirmed. ¹

D.C. Fire and EMS took him to a hospital, where he died despite lifesaving efforts. Jabrell lived in Northeast Washington. The available reporting does not identify the hospital or establish his time of death, and it offers no further account of his treatment. ¹

Even Jabrell’s age remains unsettled in the published accounts. WJLA and NBC Washington, in reports updated October 26, identify him as 16. FOX 5’s October 25 account gives his age as 15. The difference has not been resolved, so neither age can be presented as uncontested. His identification answers one question left by the initial unnamed account, but not this discrepancy. ^{1 5 4}

The police alert supplies the more specific relationship between the two teenagers. Earlier reporting by WUSA9 said police believed the victim and the person sought knew each other; the alert describes them as twins. DC News Now also reported Jamari’s name and that relationship. These accounts provide different levels of detail, rather than conflicting identities. ^{3 2 11}

What they do not supply is a sequence of events inside the home. The available information does not establish what preceded the gunshot, who handled or fired the weapon, or a motive. A family relationship is not an explanation for a shooting, and being named in a search alert is not a finding of criminal responsibility.

In the October 25 alert, police described Jamari as a 16-year-old Black male, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds, with a short haircut and wearing black pajama pants. Police believed he was armed with a handgun. Those details belong to the alert issued that morning; they are not confirmation of his current appearance, location or possession of a weapon. ²

The warning instructed recipients not to intervene and to call 911, citing event number I20260503618. Its purpose was to direct a response to police, not to invite members of the public to approach or try to detain the teenager. ²

For information about the investigation, WJLA published the police contact number 202-727-9099 and text number 50411. Those information channels are separate from the alert’s emergency instruction to call 911. Anyone passing along information should distinguish what they personally observed from what they have heard or read. ^{1 2}

The next consequential update would establish whether Jamari has been located and what investigators have determined about Jabrell’s death. Until then, the public account remains a fatal shooting followed by a documented search—not a resolved account of how one brother died or what role, if any, the other played.