On the afternoon of Tuesday, January 13, 2004, police in Washington, D.C., responded to a reported shooting in the 1100 block of Bladensburg Road NE. Inside a vehicle officers found 18-year-old Kenneth Nicholas Grimsley Jr., a Black male, suffering from gunshot wounds. Emergency responders attempted to save him, but his injuries proved fatal.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Crimes Branch opened an investigation. A reward of up to $25,000 was offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction, and the case remained open in the years that followed. No arrests have been publicly announced and no suspects have been officially named. His family remembered him as a wonderful son with a heart of gold.

Did anyone in the area on January 13, 2004, or anyone who knew Kenneth, see or hear anything that could help investigators?