In the early morning hours of Saturday, March 27, 2021, gunfire was reported in the 1700 block of Gales Place NE in Washington, D.C. Officers from the Fifth District arrived about 1:11 a.m. and found 42-year-old Kermit Cain Jr. suffering from gunshot wounds. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel pronounced him dead at the scene and his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the shooting as a homicide. As of the last update, no suspects or arrests have been publicly identified and the circumstances of the fatal shooting remain under investigation.

If anyone has information about that predawn shooting on Gales Place NE or knew Kermit Cain Jr., please come forward to assist the investigation.