Deshawn Watkins, a 22-year-old Black man and father of two from Southeast Washington, D.C., was shot and killed in the early hours of Saturday, February 6, 2021. At about 12:44 a.m., officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sixth District responded to the 4800 block of Benning Road, Southeast, after reports of gunfire and found Watkins inside a vehicle with gunshot wounds. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services pronounced him dead at the scene and his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Detectives from the MPD Homicide Branch opened an investigation and the department asked the public for help in the days that followed. No arrests had been made and the case remained unsolved as of February 2021. The MPD is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone has information about Deshawn Watkins’s killing, please call 202-727-9099 or submit an anonymous tip by texting 50411.