Man who admitted to Ballston shooting in 2025 is arrested on murder charge in D.C.

A man who pleaded guilty to a shooting at a Ballston apartment building in 2025 was arrested late last month in a D.C. homicide.

Malachi Rawlings, 23, faces a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a woman in Southeast D.C. earlier this year, the Metropolitan Police Department announced on Aug. 2.

Rawlings was previously arrested around 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day last year following reports of gunfire at Marymount University’s Placemakr building in Ballston. He was accused of initiating a “firefight” in the elevator lobby of the building’s 10th floor after a verbal dispute…

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