Richard Anthony Banks, 47, was fatally shot inside a Southeast Washington, D.C., apartment on March 13, 2018. Police were called at about 11:19 p.m. to the 4300 block of Wheeler Road and found Banks with multiple gunshot wounds in a second-floor unit. Officers reported a trail of blood in the hallway and had to force the apartment door; a bullet also passed through the door of the apartment across the hall. Banks was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the case as a homicide and has offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced and the investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Richard Banks, please share tips with the Metropolitan Police Department.