WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two people have pleaded guilty in connection with a 2023 drive-by shooting in Northwest Washington that killed a bystander standing on a sidewalk, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 31-year-old Iesha Marks of Bowie, Maryland, and 22-year-old Daniel Bangura of Washington, D.C., entered guilty pleas on January 13, 2026, for their roles in the shooting death of 46-year-old Donald Childs.
Marks pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed and faces between 13 and 25 years in prison. Bangura pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and faces between four and eight years. Both pleas are pending court approval. Sentencing for Marks is scheduled for June 12, 2026, and for Bangura on March 13, 2026, before Judge Danya A. Dayson.
Prosecutors said that around 2:43 p.m. on July 30, 2023, Bangura drove Marks to the 100 block of Farragut Street NW. As the car passed through a busy intersection, Marks allegedly leaned out of the passenger-side window and opened fire into the street, striking Childs, who was not the intended target. Bangura then fled the scene with Marks and later drove her to Pennsylvania to dispose of the murder weapon.
Marks was arrested in October 2023 and has remained in custody since. Bangura was indicted in May 2025 and has also been held without bond.
The Metropolitan Police Department led the investigation, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Yasmin Emrani prosecuting the case.
Two defendants pleaded guilty in a D.C. drive-by shooting that killed 46-year-old bystander Donald Childs in Northwest Washington.
