Late on the evening of Thursday, May 23, 2002, police responded to a second-floor apartment in the 100 block of Franklin Street NE in Washington, D.C., after reports of a shooting. Inside officers found three men dead: 25-year-old Mitchell Johnson, also known as MickMo, and two 21-year-olds, Elvon Smoke Miller and Daniel Ears Dimoh. All three had been shot multiple times at close range to the head and body and were pronounced dead at the scene by the D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office the next morning.

Residents in the normally quiet Franklin Commons complex said they noticed more unfamiliar traffic at the building and reported recent break-ins in the days around the killings. Miller and Johnson had prior criminal records; Johnson was convicted in 1997 of carrying a pistol without a license. Investigators had not identified a motive or determined whether one or multiple assailants were involved. No arrests had been announced and the case remained unsolved, with a reward offered for information leading to arrest and conviction.

Did anyone in the neighborhood know the victims or notice unusual activity around the complex that night?