Saki Frost, 18, and Azhari Graves, 18, both of Washington, D.C., were indicted Wednesday on charges of assault with intent to kill while armed and other charges stemming from a shooting that occurred on May 3, 2024, near Dunbar High School.
Both defendants will be arraigned on February 20, 2025, before the Honorable J. Michael Ryan.
Frost and Graves were indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on charges of assault with intent to kill while armed, aggravated assault while armed, assault with a dangerous weapon, and related firearms charges.
Frost, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, was charged as an adult under Title 16 and was also indicted on charges of assault with intent to murder while armed.
According to the government’s evidence, at approximately 9:53 a.m., on May 3, 2024, Graves and Frost opened fire on a sedan that was driving down Kirby Street, NW, near Dunbar High School. A witness to the shooting reported hearing machine gun fire. Surveillance video captured Frost and Graves running down an alleyway holding firearms before the shooting.
Surveillance video also captured the shooting, in which an individual appearing to be Frost fired a gun toward the sedan. Surveillance footage also captured Graves after the shooting holding a firearm with the slide locked to the rear of the weapon, indicating that the weapon had been fired and the magazine emptied.
Graves and Frost then fled the area in a vehicle. Later that day, MPD officers located the defendants’ vehicle and arrested Graves and Frost. Investigators recovered a total of 29 shell casings from the scene of the shooting and numerous fragments from the exterior of Dunbar High School, as well as classrooms inside the school.
Investigators also observed at least six bullet strikes to the N Street side of Dunbar. During the shooting, one Dunbar student suffered a graze wound to the head from the gunfire.
