On the evening of June 12, 2022, gunfire struck the 1300 block of Savannah Street SE in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Seventh District arrived about 6:01 p.m. and found two men with gunshot wounds. One victim, 34-year-old Alphonzo Edward Jones, a Black man from Temple Hills, Maryland, was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an official determination of cause and manner of death.

A second man shot in the incident was transported to a local hospital for treatment. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating Jones’s death as a homicide; no arrests have been announced and no suspect information has been released. A reward of up to $25,000 has been offered for information that leads to arrest and conviction.

Anyone with information about what happened that evening or the people involved is asked to contact investigators.