Michael Benbow, 18, was shot and killed on the afternoon of Thursday, April 1, 2021, in the 2600 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE in Washington, D.C. Police from the Seventh District responded to a reported shooting at about 4:21 p.m. and found Benbow inside a residence with multiple gunshot wounds; emergency medical services found no signs of life. A juvenile female who was present suffered a graze wound and was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, and a second adult male with a gunshot wound was located at a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Benbow was a resident of Southwest, D.C., and the Homicide Branch took over the investigation. Less than a year earlier, in August 2020, then 17-year-old Benbow had been arrested and charged as an adult with first-degree murder while armed in the April 3, 2020, killing of 28-year-old David Deandre Young; Benbow was on pretrial release for that charge at the time of his death. Authorities have offered up to a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Does anyone have information about the April 1, 2021 shooting or knowledge of persons who were in that residence that afternoon?