At approximately 11:58 on the morning of Sunday, December 27, 1998, a member of the Metropolitan Police Department found an unidentified male in the 900 block of Bellevue Street SE, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head lying on the sidewalk. DCFD emergency medical technicians were then summoned to the scene.

The victim, who has been identified as 21-year-old Marlon Romale Mittchell of the 800 block of Barnaby Street, SE, was transported to DC General Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:53 pm.

The case is under investigation by members of the Department's Homicide Branch.

Anyone with information pertaining to this case is asked to call the Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch at (202) 727-4347 or the DC's Crime Solvers Unit at 1-800-673-2777.

All calls to the Crime Solvers Unit are confidential and a caller need not give his/her name. A caller who provides information through the Crime Solvers Unit which leads to an arrest and indictment in this case will be eligible for a reward of up to ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.