3 Washington men convicted of shooting their father and teenage son in 2018

Three DC men have been convicted for their roles in a December 2018 shooting that killed a 14-year-old boy and injured his father.

Jamal Matthews, 34, Darnell Savoy, 25, and Stefon Freshley, 28, were sentenced Friday in the shooting deaths of the teenager and his 34-year-old father on Dec. 28, 2018, in the district's Clay Terrace neighborhood.

Matthews was sentenced to 21 years in prison, Savoy to nine years and Freshley to seven and a half years, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

The men pleaded guilty in March to taking part in the shooting, claiming it was a case of mistaken identity.

The victims were waiting in their SUV in the 200 block of 54th Street in Northeast DC for a friend to arrive when Matthews spotted the SUV and mistook it for a vehicle that had shot at him and his cousin three days earlier on Christmas Day, killing the latter.

According to authorities, after seeing the victims' SUV, Matthews called someone who in turn called Freshley, who drove to Matthews' location to pick him up in Savoy's vehicle.

As the three men drove past the victims' SUV, Matthews fired approximately 30 shots into the vehicle, hitting the teen nine times in the head, stomach, chest and back. The teen's father was shot in the leg and hand.

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