Sean Alvarez Butler, a young African-American man in his mid-twenties, was shot and killed on the night of September 16, 2000, on the 800 block of Chesapeake Street SE in Southeast Washington, D.C. Responding Metropolitan Police Department officers found Butler wounded on the pavement; he was pronounced dead at the scene and the death was classified as a homicide.

Butler was remembered by friends and family as mannerly and intelligent, the beloved child of the late Helen McCauley and Jonathan Butler. His family held funeral services in Northeast D.C., and he was buried at Glenwood Cemetery. The MPD issued a public appeal and circulated a reward poster offering up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction, listing contact numbers and an email for the unsolved homicide unit.

If anyone knew Sean, his movements that night, or has information about the 800 block of Chesapeake Street SE on September 16, 2000, please contact the Metropolitan Police Department’s unsolved homicide unit.