Top 10 Facts About The Death Of Seth Rich On July 10, 2016, at 4:18 a.m., Seth Rich, an employee of the Democratic National Convention, was shot two times in the back and killed.Rich’s death sparked a media circus, as rumors and theories started to spread about why a young man in the prime of his life had met his end on a dark street in Washington, D.C. The police said it was an attempted robbery gone wrong—but stories soon started to spread that Seth’s death was planned, and that he was the ma