Demarco Jones, 25, of Waldorf, Maryland, was shot and killed in Southeast Washington, D.C., in the early morning of Saturday, July 6, 2019. At about 4:50 a.m., Metropolitan Police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 400 block of Burns Street SE and found an unconscious adult male with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel could not save him; he was pronounced dead at the scene and later identified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as Demarco Jones.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch opened an investigation and appealed to the public for help.

If anyone has information about what happened on Burns Street that morning or the people involved, please share it with the Metropolitan Police Department.