Shortly before 6:00 a.m. on February 17, 2021, gunfire was reported in the 1500 block of Butler Street Southeast in Washington, D.C. Responding Seventh District officers and DC Fire and EMS found 29-year-old Dalonte McLean inside an apartment building suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He showed no signs of life and was pronounced dead at the scene; his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch investigated and offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. For more than three years the case remained under investigation. On August 7, 2024, a 21-year-old man from Oxon Hill, Maryland, was arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder while Armed. On November 7, 2024, a second suspect, 28-year-old Delonte Terrell of Brandywine, Maryland, was arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder while Armed. Authorities have not released a motive or described the suspects’ connection to McLean.

Anyone with information about Dalonte McLean or the events that morning is asked to come forward.