Document: Homicide in Woodland Neighborhood

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened on the afternoon of March 28.

At around 1:31 p.m. that day, officers responded to the 2700 block of Bruce Place, SE for the report of a shooting.

There, they found 27 year-old Darius Burts suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on the scene.