Umar Saunders, an African-American male, was shot and killed on the evening of Wednesday, November 24, 2004, behind 4477 B Street SE in Washington, D.C., at about 6:30 p.m. The location is in the Marshall Heights area of Southeast. Police and first responders were called to the scene where Saunders had been struck by gunfire and did not survive his wounds.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Crimes Branch opened an investigation and issued a public appeal for information, identifying Saunders by name and asking anyone with knowledge of the shooting to come forward. Despite canvassing, interviews and tips, no arrests were announced and police did not publicly name a suspect. The case remained on the city’s unsolved-homicide roster and in the official case flyer, and memorial notices recorded Saunders’s death while the investigation continued without a breakthrough.

Does anyone who lived in or near Marshall Heights in November 2004 remember hearing or seeing anything that could help explain who fired the shots behind 4477 B Street SE or why?