Document: Human Skeletal Remains Found in Southeast, DC, Death Ruled a Homicide

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened on the 3600 block of F Street, SE.

At around 1:18 p.m. on Feb. 4, officers responded to the report of human skeletal remains in Fort Dupont Park.

Upon arrival, they located the remains and transported them to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. A post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a gunshot wound and the death was ruled a homicide.

The decedent has been identified as 44 year-old Keith Johnson.