Shortly before dawn on Friday, November 8, 2013, more than two dozen gunshots rang out in a Southeast Washington, D.C. neighborhood. At about 3:23 a.m., 27-year-old Tyree Beysean Miller, a Black male, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 5000 block of Bass Place, Southeast, near Nalle Elementary School. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

Police found a semi-automatic weapon near Miller’s body; officers reported the gun had run out of bullets and believed it may have been used in an exchange of fire with one or more assailants. Residents described the incident as a gun battle that also damaged several nearby cars. No arrests were made immediately, suspects remained at large, and the Metropolitan Police Department offered a reward of up to $25,000. The motive was reported as possibly related to a drug dispute.

If anyone was in the Bass Place area that pre-dawn hour or has information about the shooting, please come forward to investigators.