On the evening of Thursday, January 19, 2023, 23-year-old Keshon Rylo Cornish, a Black man from Lanham, Maryland, was fatally shot in the 4000 block of Minnesota Avenue Northeast in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sixth District officers found Cornish unconscious with apparent gunshot wounds around 5:42 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The Metropolitan Police Department has classified the death as a homicide and continues to investigate. No information about suspects or a lookout has been publicly released, and the case remains unsolved. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, February 4, 2023, at Christ Church in Cheverly, Maryland, and Cornish was interred in Sumter, South Carolina. If anyone has information about what happened that evening, please share it with the Metropolitan Police Department.