DC Metropolitan Police
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide in Northeast.
On Monday, September 2, 2024, at approximately 1:19 a.m., officers responded to a call for the sound of gunshots in the 2800 block of 7th Street, Northeast. Upon arrival, officers located a man with gunshot wound injuries. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
The decedent has been identified as 46-year-old Townsend Reginald Sowell, of Northeast.
Anyone who has knowledge of this incident should take no action but call police
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