On the morning of September 13, 2013, 24-year-old Vernon Davis was found with an apparent gunshot wound on the 1900 block of 3rd Street NE in Washington, D.C. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene after officers from the Fifth District arrived following a call about an unconscious male at approximately 8:22 a.m.

Detectives with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch investigated Davis’s killing and pursued leads linking it to another homicide in the Eckington neighborhood. Investigators believed Davis had witnessed the October 31, 2012, killing of Anthony Weathers and that neighborhood talk suggested he had been in contact with law enforcement. A grand jury subpoena card was reportedly found on Davis’s person when he was killed.

A suspect was arrested and charged in 2023 after an informant provided information that corroborated prior evidence. Does anyone have information about Vernon Davis, his movements in September 2013, or contacts in the Eckington neighborhood?