Donald Jerome Shipp Jr. was fatally shot the night of April 12, 1979, while seated in a car with his girlfriend in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The couple was parked in front of Shipp’s home on the 3300 block of 19th Street Northwest at about 11 p.m. when an assailant who had exited a 1969 Chevy Chevelle crossed the street and fired through the driver’s side window. Shipp was struck multiple times and died; his girlfriend survived after being hit in the hip.

Investigators identified a suspected getaway car and linked it to a man known as Chico, a member of a gang called the Young-uns. Another person of interest was a man nicknamed June Bug, with whom Shipp had a confrontation the day before in which Shipp reportedly brandished a pellet gun. Both Chico and June Bug were placed in a police lineup, but the girlfriend could not identify the shooter. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Case Review Project is offering up to a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone knew Donald, his movements that night, or has information about Chico, June Bug, or the 1969 Chevy Chevelle, please contact the Metropolitan Police Department.