Pieter Shapar was 24 when a violent confrontation on June 12, 2005, left him fatally wounded in Washington, D.C. Around 8:00 PM that night he encountered three males breaking into his vehicle in the 4300 block of Martin Luther King Avenue SW. During the confrontation Shapar was stabbed; the three assailants, described as Black males, fled the scene.

Shapar, born December 31, 1980, was a former professional boxer and model. He was taken to Washington Hospital Center’s MEDSTAR unit in critical condition and remained on life support for over a month before being removed on July 15, 2005. The Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation and reported pursuing leads in the year after the attack. No arrests are indicated.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or who knew Pieter notice suspicious activity around that block on the evening of June 12, 2005?