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A D.C. man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection to the fatal shooting of a taxicab driver last summer.

According to a release from U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ron Machen, Ercell D. Overton, 32, admitted to the murder of a driver in June of last year, as well as two counts of felony assault on a police officer while armed.

On June 4, at about 3 a.m., three Metropolitan Police Department officers on patrol near Adams Morgan heard a single gunshot and witnessed a Ford Explorer cab, which was hijacked by Overton, speed by. Police pursued the cab, which crashed into a parked car and Overton, gun in hand, began fleeing on foot. While pursuing, MPD reports say that Overton “discharged his weapon in the direction of two of the three police officers, who returned fire,” before apprehending him in the basement apartment of a house in the 2300 block of Ontario Road NW. Police recovered a semi-automatic pistol “in close proximity” to Overton when he was arrested.

The cab driver, Solomon J. Okoroh, 57, suffered two gunshot wounds to his back and died in the hospital, nearly two hours after the shooting.