Rayfone Gassaway was 37 and a resident of Alexandria, Virginia when he was found fatally shot in Washington, D.C. On Sunday, July 19, 2020, at about 11:30 p.m., officers from the Seventh District responded to the 3400 block of Stanton Road Southeast and discovered Gassaway unconscious and unresponsive with apparent gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene; his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch handled the initial investigation and the department offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. The case remained under investigation for more than a year before a later development was announced.

If anyone has information about what happened to Rayfone Gassaway on July 19, 2020, please come forward to help bring answers to his family.