On the morning of Saturday, June 20, 2026, officers from the Seventh District of the Metropolitan Police Department responded to a report of an unconscious person in the 1400 block of Bruce Place SE. At about 11:51 a.m. they found 20-year-old Manuel Enrique Garcia Reyes of Alexandria, Virginia, inside a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services pronounced him dead at the scene.

Detectives determined the shooting did not occur where the vehicle was found; they traced the location of the offense to the 1400 block of Shippen Lane SE, a short distance away. The circumstances that led Garcia Reyes to be in the vehicle and how he came to be shot remain unclear. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch has classified the case as a homicide and is offering up to a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified and the case remains unsolved. Anyone with information about this fatal shooting is asked to contact investigators. What did readers in the area notice that morning on Shippen Lane or Bruce Place?