In the early morning hours of Monday, June 20, 2022, officers were called to the 2800 block of New York Avenue NE for what was initially reported as a traffic crash. At about 2:22 a.m. they found 29-year-old Darrius Watts of Laurel, Maryland, inside a wrecked vehicle with gunshot wounds. A female passenger suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the crash.

Watts was taken to a nearby hospital but died of his injuries. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch reclassified the case as a homicide. Investigators have not disclosed where the shooting occurred, and no arrests have been announced. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.

Did anyone in the area see the vehicle before or after the crash, or have information about where the shooting might have happened?