In the early morning hours of a Saturday in March 2004, George Barnes was fatally stabbed inside the Between Friends Club at 1115a U Street NW in Washington, D.C. Third District officers responding to a radio call for a stabbing found Barnes unconscious and unresponsive; emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

The Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation, but few immediate leads emerged. Motive and the identity of the assailant or assailants remain unknown, and the case is still an open investigation. The family has not had answers about what happened that night.

If anyone was at the club that night or has information that could help solve George Barnes’s killing, please come forward.