Pili Barker was a 21-year-old African-American man from the 1400 block of Webster Street NW in Washington, D.C. In the early hours of Monday, November 8, 2004, he was in Southeast Washington along the 1600 block of W Street SE. Just after 1:40 a.m., a report of gunfire brought police to the scene; officers arrived around 1:43–1:45 a.m. and found Barker in the roadway, fatally shot.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Crimes Branch treated the death as a homicide and issued a reward flier offering up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone knew Pili, was in that neighborhood that night, or has information about the events on W Street SE around 1:40 a.m., please contact the investigators named on the department’s tip line.