On the afternoon of May 31, 2020, Richard Mitchell, a 25-year-old Black man from Oxon Hill, Maryland, was found in the 2500 block of Elvans Road SE in Southeast Washington, D.C., suffering multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch opened an investigation into the fatal shooting.

On June 25, 2020, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 28-year-old Jonathan Jenkins on a D.C. Superior Court warrant; he was charged with second-degree murder in connection with Mitchell’s death. During pretrial proceedings the credibility of the primary witness was challenged, and on November 5, 2020, a D.C. Superior Court judge dismissed the murder charge for insufficient evidence. The investigation remains open and unresolved.

If anyone has information about what happened on Elvans Road SE that afternoon, please share it with the Metropolitan Police Department.