In the early morning hours of June 17, 2021, gunfire on the 3100 block of Waclark Place Southeast in Washington, D.C. left 28-year-old Demonte Thompson fatally wounded. Officers from the Seventh District responded to a report of a shooting at about 5:02 a.m.; emergency medical services took the victim to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch is investigating and has offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

The victim lived in Southeast D.C. Reports note a separate, unrelated fatal shooting years earlier of a different man with a similar name, Damonta Thompson, who was killed in May 2017; that case resulted in a guilty plea and a prison sentence for the shooter. No arrest has been announced in the June 17, 2021 killing of Demonte Thompson. Does anyone who knew Demonte or was in that neighborhood that morning have information that could help the investigation?