On the evening of January 30, 2020, police in Southeast Washington, D.C., responded to a report of a shooting in the 100 block of Atlantic Street SE. Officers arrived after a call at about 8:10 p.m. and found 30-year-old John Seegars inside the residence with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical services pronounced Seegars dead at the scene; investigators determined the shooting occurred inside the home.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are handling the investigation. If anyone in the neighborhood that night saw anything out of the ordinary or has information about what happened inside the house, please come forward.