Brian Thomas was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Friday, August 26, 2005, in the 700 block of Oglethorpe Street NE in Washington, D.C. He was 24 years old and the shooting occurred at approximately 2:15 a.m. Brian also went by the name Q.

Days before the killing he had been in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with his girlfriend and had called his mother, Linda Quattlebaum, from the beach. On the night he died he had visited his mother to give her a blouse he bought at the beach and said he needed to visit a friend in his former neighborhood; a friend later called the mother about 2 a.m. to report that Brian had been shot and had died.

The Metropolitan Police Department investigated the homicide and has appealed to the public for information. No arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified. If anyone knew Brian, his movements that night, or has information about the 700 block of Oglethorpe Street NE around 2:15 a.m. on August 26, 2005, please come forward.