Vincent Palmer, a 29-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the evening of Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The shooting occurred about 5:29 p.m. in the 1300 block of Stevens Road Southeast, near the Barry Farm neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Police found Palmer at the scene with gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead there.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch opened an investigation and has appealed to the public for help. The circumstances of the shooting remain unclear.

If anyone has information about what happened that evening or saw activity in the 1300 block of Stevens Road Southeast around 5:29 p.m. on June 6, 2018, please come forward.