Document: Homicide in Benning Neighborhood

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened on the afternoon of Nov. 2.

At around 2:22 p.m., officers responded to the 4000 block of Ames Street, NE for the report of an unconscious person. There, they found an adult male, in the wooded area alongside the location, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

His identity is being held pending next of kin notification.

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