Clifton Rife II was 34 and an off-duty District of Columbia police sergeant when he was killed in the early morning of June 2, 2004, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. He was visiting a friend at the Riverview Terrace apartments in the 5400 block of Livingston Terrace when a masked assailant confronted him with a pistol in an apparent robbery attempt. A gunfight followed; Rife drew his service revolver and was struck in the chest. He was able to tell his friend he had been shot before being airlifted to Prince George’s Hospital Center, where he died shortly after arrival.

The attacker, identified as 16-year-old Jonathan M. Washington, sustained multiple upper-body gunshot wounds and was found dead at the scene. Authorities said Washington was a runaway from a group home and had a juvenile arrest record. As the only suspect also died at the scene, no arrests were made.

Did anyone in the Oxon Hill community know Rife or have information about the circumstances that led to the confrontation at Livingston Terrace?