Sheldon Kevin Robinson, a 28-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed on the afternoon of Thursday, May 12, 2016. He had just stepped off a bus in the 3700 block of Ely Place SE in Washington, D.C., near the Banneker Place apartments when gunfire erupted at about 3:18 p.m. Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds.

The shooting happened in broad daylight on a residential stretch of Ely Place near Sousa Middle School and the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, and witnesses described chaos as families and children were returning home. Metropolitan Police detectives from the Homicide Branch opened an investigation, circulated a public appeal for tips and offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Police later sought help identifying a person of interest, and the case remains listed among the District’s unsolved homicides.

If anyone saw activity around the 3700 block of Ely Place SE on May 12, 2016, or has information about Sheldon Robinson’s killing, please come forward.