Nakysia Rachael Lemon-Williams, 26, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of November 14, 2023, in the 1900 block of Minnesota Avenue Southeast in Washington, D.C. Officers were flagged down about a shooting and she was found with gunshot injuries around 7:33 a.m. Emergency services took her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Lemon-Williams was Black/African American and listed as having no fixed address.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch opened an investigation and offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. On December 20, 2023, detectives with assistance from the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force located and arrested 24-year-old Yazmin Owens, also reported as having no fixed address. Owens was taken into custody on a D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant and charged with First Degree Murder while Armed in connection with Lemon-Williams’s death.

Are there any witnesses or local residents who can share information about what happened that morning or about Nakysia Lemon-Williams’s activities in that neighborhood?