Larry Thomas, 27, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of August 24, 2023, in the 3600 block of 16th Street Northwest in Washington, D.C. Officers responded around 4:37 a.m. after reports of gunfire and found Thomas with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Thomas lived in Triangle, Virginia, and worked at the Yard House sports bar in Chinatown.

Security camera footage shows Thomas interacting with a man later identified as a suspect inside a bar, including giving him a cigarette in a stairwell. The two left separately but were later captured on camera at an apartment building where their interaction escalated. Police say a verbal and physical altercation occurred between Thomas and the suspect’s son, Jason Vasquez Paneda, and that 44-year-old Emerita Garcia, also reported as Amorita Paneda Garcia, then gave her son a gun from her bag. Prosecutors charged Garcia on September 7, 2023, with first-degree murder while armed, alleging she aided and abetted by supplying the weapon and helping her son flee. Paneda had been identified as a suspect but was not yet in custody; the motive remained unclear.

Did anyone see Thomas that night or have information about the encounter outside the apartment building?