The Metropolitan Police Department is offering up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the Oct. 29 killing of 53-year-old Ricardo Waymon Jones. MPD’s victim bulletin places the shooting in the 3600 block of Georgia Avenue NW.
A separate address appears in DC News Now’s account, which cited a police report: officers were dispatched around 4:05 p.m. to a home in the 800 block of Princeton Place NW. The outlet reported that they found Jones unconscious and not breathing; paramedics tried to save him, but he died at the scene. The accounts do not explain how that dispatch address relates to the Georgia Avenue location in MPD’s bulletin. DC News Now also reported that police had not released details about a potential suspect. Those response details and the report about suspect information are attributed to the outlet, not presented as additional details in MPD’s bulletin.
Other Georgia Avenue cases are separate incidents
MPD has reported other, distinct fatal incidents on Georgia Avenue. On May 25, 2025, the department said 26-year-old Benjamin Coleman was killed in a shooting in the 3300 block NW. In 2023, MPD reported that 64-year-old Reggie Brown died after an assault in the 6200 block NW; the department later announced arrests in that case, and the medical examiner ruled Brown’s cause of death blunt force trauma. These cases differ in date, location and, in Brown’s case, the described injury mechanism. They do not establish a connection to Jones’s killing or a pattern in his immediate neighborhood. MPD’s account of Coleman’s case and its account of Brown’s case document those separate incidents.
Citywide figures do not resolve the case
MPD’s 2020 annual report recorded 135 homicides in 2016, 116 in 2017, 160 in 2018, 166 in 2019 and 198 in 2020. These are historical citywide counts, not a measure of change around the 3600 block or an explanation for Jones’s death. MPD also cautions that its annual homicide clearance rate compares cases closed during a calendar year with homicides that occurred in that year; cases closed may be from the current or earlier years. That measure alone does not say whether a particular case, including Jones’s, has been cleared. MPD’s 2020 report and its explanation of clearance rates describe those different measures.
Anyone with information about Jones’s killing can call MPD at 202-727-9099 or text 50411, according to the department’s reward announcement. DC News Now reported that tips may be submitted anonymously.
