James Ray Junior Pone was 30 when he was found with a gunshot wound in the 700 block of Brandywine Street SE in Washington, D.C., on the evening of Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Emergency personnel took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Originally from Whiteville, North Carolina, Pone was a graduate of Whiteville High School. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch opened an investigation and publicly sought leads; authorities offered a substantial reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone knew James, was in that neighborhood that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward to investigators.