Document: Northeast Homicide

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Metropolitan Police Department detectives are investigating a homicide that occurred on Sept. 4, on the 1800 block of East Capitol Street, NE.

At approximately 3:41 p.m., officers located an adult male suffering from apparent trauma. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The decedent has been identified as 31-year-old David Louis Baker, Jr.