This is someone from right here in our community. Please help the police bring the criminals to justice that took this man's life so senselessly. If you have ANY information please contact the police immediately. Information on how to contact the policee (and even leave an anonymous tip) are included below. We are a community and a family in Congress Heights and we can't tolerate this violence in our community!

From the Washington Post:

By Theola Labbé-DeBose and Clarence Williams

Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, July 30, 2009

As an amateur boxer, District resident Clarence Lawrence Dews, 76, was used to taking punches and fighting back. He belied his age, family members said, with a lively personality, breaking out in spontaneous dance moves or jamming on a guitar with his son and grandson.

Dews had all that energy and spirit last week, when two men beat him in an attempted robbery along a busy street in Southeast Washington, police said. Dews broke his hands defending himself. When relatives visited him in the hospital, they teased him, saying that with his bandages, he still looked like a prizefighter.

"He was fine. He was his old self," said Wallace Dews, 74, a brother who lives nearby in Anacostia. "He was flirting with the nurses and talked about how he gave those boys a good fight."

Days later, Dews died of blunt force trauma, the city medical examiner said.

Sometime after 10 p.m. July 20, Dews left his home, in the 2900 block of Seventh Street SE, and walked a few blocks to King Discount. The store, a mom-and-pop version of a big-box retailer, is in the 2700 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE. It wasn't unusual for Dews to be out at night, relatives said, because he was well known in his neighborhood.

Police said Dews was jumped by two men who appeared to be in their late teens and approached him on bicycles and tried to rob him. Dews told family members that he struck one of the men but that at some point the other man threw his bicycle at him and Dews fell to the ground. The robbers got his wallet and pedaled away.

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Anyone with information about this case is asked to call police at (202) 727-9099 or 1-888-919-CRIM [E] (1-888-919-2746).

The Metropolitan Police Department is currently offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for any homicide committed in the District of Columbia.