Tyvez Monroe was 27 when he was shot and killed in the pre-dawn hours of December 26, 2023. A standout basketball player from Thomas Edison High School who scored more than 1,000 points in both high school and at Augusta University, Monroe had recently moved into an apartment in Arlington, Virginia. Family remembered him as a good-hearted peacekeeper who tried to de-escalate conflict.

Witnesses say Monroe was sitting at a bus stop in the 600 block of Maryland Avenue SW near LEnfant Plaza just before 4:30 a.m. when a man with an unleashed dog approached, exchanged a fist bump with him, then suddenly pulled an AR-15-style rifle and fired. Monroe reportedly spread his arms just before the gunman shot him, killing him and shattering the bus-shelter glass.

Metropolitan Police identified and arrested 36-year-old Deonte Vondell Spicer of Northwest D.C. on December 28, 2023; he was charged with premeditated first-degree murder while armed and related weapons offenses. Authorities had not released a motive. Does anyone have information about Tyvez’s last movements that could help clarify what happened that night?