Dontel Jahmal Don Don Price was 21 when he was shot and killed in the early hours of Saturday, May 18, 2013. Neighbors on the unit block of S Street NE in the Eckington area heard gunfire between about 2:35 and 3:20 a.m.; Metropolitan Police officers found Dontel lying on the pavement with at least one gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead there not long after.

Police publicly described the incident in basic terms and offered up to a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, but little else about motive or circumstances has been released. Family members remembered him as Don Don, the child of Donnell and Valerie Price and part of a large family; a viewing and service were held at Community United Methodist Church and he was buried at Glenwood Cemetery on May 30, 2013. Community memorials appeared on and near S Street NE, including candles, a teddy bear, and a larger bottle-and–T-shirt shrine on Lincoln Road NE.

If anyone has information that could help clarify what happened that night, please come forward to investigators.