Police search for D.C. teen wanted in fatal shooting of twin brother

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Oct 28, 2026
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AI GeneratedPolice are searching for a 16-year-old boy in Washington, D.C., wanted in the shooting death of his identical twin brother, Jabril Young. While authorities are treating the incident as a homicide, the victim's mother and aunt maintain that the shooting was a devastating accident that occurred inside their home.
Police are still looking for a D.C. teenager wanted
in the shooting death of his twin, a 16-year-old brother.
A shooting the boy's mother calls a devastating accident.
Fox 5's Bob Barnard is live in Northwest
with what we're learning tonight, Bob.
Yeah, Marina, MPD is calling this a homicide case.
They are still looking for a 16-year-old boy wanted
in the shooting death of his identical twin brother.
Now, the mother and an aunt of the twins tell us they are in shock
and disbelief, devastated by what happened Sunday morning around 8:30.
They spoke to us off camera today, telling us the shooting inside
the family's home in northeast D.C. was an accident.
That 16-year-old Jabril Young died in his mother's arms
in the basement of the house on 46th Street.
That Jabril's twin brother is scared and afraid,
did not intentionally shoot his brother.
That they don't know where he is.
Police say the missing brother is known to hang out
in a southeast D.C. neighborhood called Simple City
and also at the Tyler House that's on North Capitol Street Northwest.
That's where we met Daryl Hairston today.
He lost his 20-year-old son to gun violence 10 years ago.
It's something that's going to have to be worked out.
It's complicated. It's painful.
But try to make sure you can reach somebody
or attorney or lawyer that can work this out with you
because at this point,
you could be losing two kids that you already lost one.
We're just trying to understand what happened in the home.
Why did it happen in the home?
This is what we gotta understand,
why are kids under 15, 16 years old carrying guns
around?
It's hard to wrap your head around.
Now the twins' mother and an aunt say police took their phones
while investigating the
fatal shooting.
The mom says she was called before a grand jury yesterday,
but the questioning was stopped
when prosecutors offered and she asked for a lawyer.
And now police say the 16-year-old
who is still out there, who they're looking for,
was last seen wearing dark-colored pajamas
and believed to be armed at least at that time.
Marina.
