One of the men accused in one of the District’s deadliest shootings in decades has pleaded guilty to five counts of second-degree murder and two counts of conspiracy and is cooperating with police.

Nathaniel Simms, 26, admitted that he was one of four men who piled into a rented minivan on March 30 and went on a shooting rampage in Southeast Washington that left four young people dead and five wounded. Simms said he leaned the barrel of an AK-47 out the window of the Chrysler Town and Country van and fired into a crowd of mourners coming from a funeral.

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