Do you know who murdered Robert Mitchner Jr? Robert William Mitchner Jr., a Black male, was shot and killed in the late morning hours of Wednesday, November 15, 2006. At approximately 10:43 a.m., he was in the rear of 705 24th Street, NE, in Washington, D.C., when gunfire struck him; he died there amid the back-lot spaces and alleyways behind the rowhouses. The scene drew Metropolitan Police Department investigators who documented the time and location with precision as they began piecing together the minutes leading up to the shooting.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Crimes Branch took the case and appealed to the public for help, offering a reward and circulating a homicide flyer that fixed the moment and place of the killing. In the materials released by police, no suspect description was provided, and authorities did not announce any arrests; instead, they listed contact numbers and urged anyone with knowledge to come forward. Public postings in the years since continue to frame the case as an open, unsolved homicide, reflecting the absence of publicly reported suspects or charges tied to Mitchner’s death.
