A late-afternoon shooting on Sunday, September 17, 2023, left 34-year-old Michael McKinney of Northeast, D.C. dead. Officers from the Fifth District responded to reports of gunfire at about 3:52 p.m. on the 1200 block of Brentwood Road, Northeast, and found McKinney with gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead from his injuries.

The case was handled by the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch and remained under investigation for several months. On Friday, December 8, 2023, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, acting on a D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant, located and arrested 23-year-old Tyree Sanders of Northwest, D.C. Sanders was charged with First Degree Murder while Armed in connection with McKinney’s death.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything that afternoon on Brentwood Road that could help fill in what happened?