Shamar Marbury, 19, was found with multiple gunshot wounds inside the Belmont Crossing apartments on the 4200 block of Barnaby Road SE in Washington Highlands on the evening of January 1, 2019. Officers discovered him unconscious on a second-floor stairwell around 8:40 p.m.; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead about 45 minutes later, becoming the city’s first homicide victim of 2019.

Neighbors and loved ones left candles and personal tributes near the scene as the community mourned. The Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation but did not disclose a motive or suspects; no arrests have been announced and a reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Court documents later linked some of Marbury’s friends to a separate fatal shooting on January 12, 2019, alleged to be retaliation, and a relative had told police those friends might be planning revenge.

Does anyone who knew Shamar or who was in the Washington Highlands area that night have information that could help the investigation?