On the evening of Labor Day, September 4, 2023, 18-year-old Daysean Snowden was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head inside a car in the 3800 block of 9th Street Southeast, Washington, D.C. Police responded at about 6:48 p.m.; emergency medical personnel pronounced Snowden dead at the scene.

The vehicle in which Snowden was found had been reported stolen after an armed carjacking on September 1 in neighboring Prince George’s County. Investigators have not publicly detailed any definitive connection between that carjacking and Snowden’s death. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch is handling the investigation and has not released information about suspects or a motive, offering up to a $25,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone has information about the shooting, the stolen vehicle, or events in that area on or around those dates, please share what is known with the investigators.