Dimitri Boykins was 20 when he was shot and killed in northeast Washington, D.C., on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 29, 2008. He was found in the 5700 block of Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at 3:33 p.m. He lived on the 200 block of 37th Street SE and was the son of Priscilla and Clayton Boykins, leaving behind two sisters and a brother.

The Metropolitan Police Department opened an investigation, but the shooting remains unsolved. No arrests or public identifications of suspects have been made, and police have periodically asked the public for information. Little else about the circumstances of the shooting is publicly known.

If anyone remembers Dimitri, saw activity near Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE that afternoon, or has information that could help, please come forward.