location homicide needs no directions to.di since april of 2013 adam parker, antonio macalester, marcus alston, mil sted, la troy smith, dare continuous cannon, and now demetrius stevenson have all lost their lives on this block. three of the murders still unsolved. >> its disgusting. its going to be handled. >> reporter: angela holmes spoka to us outside mpd's homicide branch where she tried at this time last year the city had recorded 48 murders. so the murder rate now as it stands today is ahead of thehe same pace last year where at 50 homicides as you just heard i i talked to paul cramp ton he's the commissioner for thatmissio neighborhood and i asked him what is it about the 2700 block of langston place that you have so much violence he said the drug today, ill legal gunal tradeable with the fact that there is a halfway house on then block and he said just yesterdas he went to that scene and hend said people came up to him and d said they feel like they'rel l living in a war zone. z life outside mpd's branch fox 5 local news. >> news you out of the pentagon a sudden pay cot back years of

dir since apriecl of 2013 adam bark, antonio, marcus alston, mil sted, smith, dare continuoustinu cannon, and now demetriusus stevenson have all lost their l lives on this block. three of the murders still unsolved.. >> its disgusting. its going to be handled: angell holmes spoke to us outside mpd's homicide branch where chytrid to help detective with who way have wanted to kill her son. >> they have a lot of leads thes are not telling. they just wanted to know littleo things about why was he around there? >> you know reason for being there. >> reporter: just before twote j p.m. thursday dc police found stevenson on a third floor landing inside 2734 langstonangs place where a police report says he was shot multiple times in the chest. che at the scene police said nothinp about a motive or suspect and stevenson's mom had not much more than that. t >> they got very good leads. if forensic is going to tell at this time all and they trying to find the bby >> reporter: so they feel confident they'll be able to solve it. >> sure very soon: he is the 50th person to be murdered in the city so fa