Donta Jermaine Simmons was 29 and from Oxon Hill, Maryland. On March 11, 2010 he was shot in the 900 block of Irvington Street in Oxon Hill; after the shooting he walked about a mile to United Medical Center in Southeast Washington, D.C., where he collapsed and died shortly after arriving. Reports say the shooting followed an argument and that Simmons and the person accused of shooting him knew each other.

The next day police announced an arrest. Charde Monet Walls, 17, of Oxon Hill, was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony, and was taken into custody in the District on the 400 block of Seventh Street NE pending extradition to Prince George’s County. Simmons was remembered in an obituary as the son of Paula Simmons-Prioleau and Gregory Simmons, the father of four children and the fiancé of a named partner; funeral services and burial at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland were noted.

Are there people who knew Donta or were in the Irvington Street area that afternoon who can share what they saw?