Crime & Safety

DC Police Release Video In 30-Year-Old Cold Case

Hoping to generate new leads, D.C. homicide detectives released a video in connection with the 1990 fatal shooting of Norman Rich.

WASHINGTON, DC — Homicide detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department released a video Tuesday in hopes of generating new leads in the 1990 unsolved homicide of Norman Rich, according to a police release.

Around 1 p.m., on March 28, 1990, Rich was found suffering from gunshot wounds in his home in the 500 block of M St., N.E.

Sheila Brown was Rich's girlfriend and the mother of their three children. When Brown left earlier in the evening, she encountered two men who were looking for Rich. Brown recognized one of the men, who went by the name "Ducky." Returning home, she found the door to their home open and Rich's body in a bedroom.

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MPD posted a video with information about this case on its official YouTube channel:


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MPD is currently offering a reward of up to $25,000 for anyone who can provide information that leads to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for any homicide in the District. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call 202-727-9099. Anonymous tips may also be submitted via text to 50411.


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