On August 24, 2023, at about 4:37 a.m., gunfire was reported on the 3600 block of 16th Street NW in Washington, D.C. Officers found a man with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was identified as 27-year-old David Thomas of Triangle, Virginia, who worked at the Yard House sports bar in Chinatown.

Surveillance footage shows Thomas in an interaction with another man outside an apartment building shortly before the shooting, and that man became agitated during the exchange. Police allege 44-year-old Emerita Garcia of Northwest, D.C. provided the firearm to a male suspect believed to be her son; officers say video captured Garcia emerging from the building with a bag, from which the gun was taken before shots were fired. Garcia was charged with first-degree murder while armed on September 7, 2023; the man accused of firing the weapon had not been in custody at that time and no clear motive had been reported.

Does anyone have information about that pre-dawn encounter or the people seen on surveillance that morning?