Marvin Gross was 20 when he was killed by gunfire in Washington, D.C., in the early morning of Saturday, July 27, 2002. The slaying occurred at about 3:25 a.m. at the intersection of Suitland Parkway and Firth Sterling Avenue SE; Gross, an African-American resident of the 1400 block of Morris Road SE, was pronounced dead at D.C. General Hospital from a gunshot wound.

The Metropolitan Police Department announced a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction, but the case remains an unsolved homicide with no arrests publicly made in direct connection to his killing. Prosecutors in a separate trial later said Gross died after an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles carrying men from the Barry Farm and Sursum Corda neighborhoods. Street reports identified a man named Franklin Thompson as the shooter, though no charge tied him to Gross’s death.

Two nights after Gross was killed, friends Ron D. Herndon and Keith T. Thomas murdered 22-year-old James Fisher III in a mistaken attempt to avenge Gross; Herndon and Thomas were later convicted of first-degree murder in Fisher’s death. Does anyone have information about the July 27, 2002 shooting of Marvin Gross or about the people involved that could help solve this case?