By Kristy Tallman, June 30, 2024
WASHINGTON – Ivan Dixon, 19, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to seven years in prison for the September 2023 shooting of two victims outside a local supermarket in Southeast Washington, DC, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Pamela A. Smith, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
In March 2024, Dixon pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to one count of Assault with Intent to Kill and one count of Possession of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, in addition to one count of Carrying a Pistol Without a License in an unrelated case. Judge Robert Okun sentenced Dixon to 84 months of incarceration, the top of Dixon’s voluntary sentencing guidelines for assault with intent to kill. This will be followed by three years of supervised release.
According to the government’s evidence, with which Dixon agreed, he was riding in a Ford Transit van when one of the victims, his intended target, parked his car outside the supermarket. As the intended target walked into the supermarket, the van made a U-turn and drove slowly past the building, ultimately circling the block before parking behind the target’s car. After a few minutes, the target left the supermarket while the second victim, an innocent bystander, approached the front door. As the target held the door open for the bystander, Dixon jumped out of the van and fired 16 shots in the direction of the target. The intended target was not hit, but the bystander was struck five times and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.