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Police identify man found shot to death inside car in Southeast DC

This is D.C.'s 4th homicide of 2024.

WASHINGTON — Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. Thursday evening. Detectives say this represents the 4th homicide of the new year.

At 6:08 p.m., officers with the Metropolitan Police Department got a call for a shooting at the intersection of 40th and Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast. At the scene, officers found a man inside a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound. He was not conscious or breathing and was pronounced dead.

Police have since identified the victim as 66-year-old Sherman Bunch, of Northeast, DC.

Anyone with information may contact detectives at (202) 727-9099 or text the department's tip line at 50411. 

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