Akim Toure, 27, was fatally shot the night of Sunday, August 3, 2025, near Union Station in Washington, D.C. The shooting happened about 11:04 p.m. in the 400 block of New Jersey Avenue NW, near the YOTEL hotel parking garage entrance. Toure, originally from Sierra Leone and living in Riverdale, Maryland, worked in IT and cared for his mother and sister after his father’s death.

Police say the confrontation began at a rooftop pool party and escalated; family and reports indicate Toure stepped in to protect a woman who was being assaulted and was then shot multiple times. First District officers found him unconscious and not breathing; he was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead.

The Metropolitan Police Department is treating the death as a homicide and has been searching for a Black male with dreadlocks last seen wearing a white shirt and shorts, who fled in a black sedan, possibly a Honda. Surveillance images have been released and a reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction. No arrests had been reported in the days after the shooting.

If anyone has information about Akim’s final movements that night or the man seen fleeing the scene, please come forward to investigators.