On May 29, 2016, at about 1:30 a.m. in northeast Washington, D.C., William Arthur Wells Jr., 39, was shot in the 200 block of 55th Street NE and pronounced dead at the scene. A second man was found a short distance away in the 5500 block of Blaine Street NE with gunshot wounds and was taken to a hospital for treatment. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch classified Wells’ death as a homicide and investigated, offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

No suspects or motive have been publicly identified, and no arrests had been announced; the case is now treated as a cold case. If anyone has information about what happened that night or remembers activity in those blocks around 1:30 a.m., please contact investigators with any details.