Murder of Seth Rich

Seth C. Rich was fatally shot on July 10, 2016 in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He was a 27-year-old employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Early life, education, and employment: Rich was a native of Omaha, Nebraska and a 2011 graduate of Creighton University, where he majored in history and political science. At the time of his death Rich was the Voter Expansion Data Director at the DNC, where he had been employed for two years and had helped develop a computer application that voters can use to locate polling stations. Death and aftermath: Rich was shot about a block from his home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Police were alerted to gunfire at 4:20 am by an automated gunfire locator called ShotSpotter. Rich was found conscious but later died in the hospital. Police stated that he may have been killed in an attempted robbery but that his belongings were not taken. According to police, the neighborhood had recently been 'plagued' by robberies. The Metropolitan Police Department posted its customary reward of $25,000 for information about the death. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued a statement mourning the loss and praising Rich's work "to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans — the right to vote." Hillary Clinton spoke of this fatality during a speech advocating limiting the availability of guns.