On August 14, 2017, at about 12:30 p.m., 31-year-old Donta McNeil was shot and killed while seated in a green Mercedes-Benz on the 2000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. The shooting happened in broad daylight, just steps from a D.C. Government housing office, and was one of four fatal shootings in the city that day. Authorities had not publicly identified any suspects or a motive, and the Metropolitan Police Department asked the public for help with information.

McNeil had been released from the D.C. Jail five months earlier after prosecutors dismissed a second-degree murder charge stemming from an October 2015 shooting death of 24-year-old Antonio Dean. His attorney had argued there were no witnesses to that shooting and challenged the witness identification. McNeil’s killing added another unsolved homicide to the city’s caseload.

If anyone saw the daylight shooting on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE or has information about McNeil’s death, please come forward.