On the evening of December 12, 2023, at about 6:54 p.m., officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Fourth District responded to a shooting on the 1400 block of Buchanan Street Northwest in the 16th Street Heights area of Washington, D.C. They found 49-year-old Neil Clark, a man with no fixed address, suffering from gunshot wounds. Clark was pronounced dead at the scene and detectives from the Homicide Branch took over the investigation.

In the days after the killing the Metropolitan Police publicly identified Clark as the victim and appealed to the community for help, offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone has information about Neil Clark, his movements that evening, or the 1400 block of Buchanan Street around 6:54 p.m. on December 12, 2023, please contact the authorities.