Anthony Eric Petty, 60, was fatally shot on the evening of Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the 2600 block of 12th Place Southeast in Washington, D.C. Officers found him around 9:42 p.m. with a gunshot wound; emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The Homicide Branch is investigating, no arrests have been announced, and police have offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Petty had no fixed address at the time of his death. Decades earlier, in 1991 when he was 16 and known as Anthony Petty Jr., he was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 29-year-old George Reid and was tried as an adult. He served 30 years and was released in 2020 under the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act. After his release he worked as a credible messenger for the East of the River Clergy-Police Community Partnership and as an outreach coordinator for the More Than Our Crimes network.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything on the night of April 27 that could help investigators?