Daquane Dream Johnson, a 28-year-old Black transgender woman, was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., just before 1 a.m. on July 5, 2025. Officers were summoned to the 2000 block of Benning Road Northeast after witnesses found Johnson unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds; she was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Witnesses told investigators that three men approached Johnson while she walked along Benning Road and that one of the men began using derogatory, transphobic slurs after Johnson disclosed she was transgender. According to those accounts, the verbal harassment escalated when the man produced a gun and fired multiple times. Family, friends and LGBTQ+ advocates have said they believe Johnson was targeted because of her gender identity and have pushed for the killing to be treated as a hate crime.

Who has information about what happened that night or about the people seen in the area of Benning Road on July 5, 2025?