On the evening of April 4, 2019, a burst of gunfire in Northeast Washington, D.C. left two young men dead. Twenty-three-year-old Jobe McDowney, a Black male who lived in Southeast D.C., was found inside the stairwell of a residential building in the 4900 block of Nash Street, Northeast, fatally shot. Twenty-one-year-old Desmond Richardson of Temple Hills, Maryland, was also found shot and dead that night.

A third adult male suffered a gunshot wound a short distance away in the 900 block of 44th Street, Northeast, and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Branch is investigating; no suspect descriptions or arrests have been released. A reward of up to $25,000 has been offered for information leading to arrest and conviction.

If anyone has information about what happened that evening, please share it with investigators.