On the evening of Monday, August 12, 2019, Devin Dwayne Smith, a 20-year-old Black man from Southeast Washington, D.C., was shot in the 2400 block of Elvans Road SE at about 8:25 p.m. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Seventh District found Smith with a gunshot wound. D.C. Fire and EMS transported him to a local hospital, where he later died of his injuries.

The Homicide Branch is investigating the killing and authorities offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to an arrest and conviction. There have been no public announcements of arrests or identified suspects.

If anyone who lived in or near the 2400 block of Elvans Road SE that night has information or saw anything unusual, please come forward to help bring answers to Devin’s family.