On the afternoon of August 18, 2021, 38-year-old Michael Nathaniel Smith was found fatally shot inside his red Hyundai Santa Fe in an alley on the unit block of K Street Northwest in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officers arrived after a report of a shooting at about 12:53 p.m. and found Smith unresponsive; he had multiple gunshot wounds, including a fatal shot to the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said this shooting occurred within roughly half an hour of another fatal shooting elsewhere in the city and that the two incidents did not appear connected. Investigators opened a homicide probe but did not publicly release any suspect descriptions, and no arrests were announced. The case remained unsolved and open as of the latest available update.

If anyone saw activity in the unit block of K Street NW around midday on August 18, 2021, or has information about Michael Smith’s death, please come forward to help the investigation.