Dante Coleman, a 20-year-old father, was shot to death on December 29, 2017, in the hallway of his apartment building in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. He lived there with his one-year-old son and the child’s mother. Officers found him with multiple gunshot wounds.

Coleman’s family had suffered a previous unsolved killing: his mother, Shawnta Coleman, was shot and killed in Prince George’s County six years earlier. Friends and relatives remembered Dante as kind, smart, and funny, and said he was trying to turn his life around and looking for work despite a few minor theft charges in his past.

If anyone knew Dante, his routines, or saw anything in the Washington Highlands around December 29, 2017, please share information with investigators.