On the evening of Saturday, July 22, 2023, 19-year-old Zion Hollingsworth-Hayes of Silver Spring, Maryland, was found shot in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. MPD officers responded around 9:53 p.m. to the 1400 block of Girard Street, Northwest, for a reported shooting and found 29-year-old Luke Whitaker wounded. A short time later a second call brought officers to the 1400 block of Fairmont Street, Northwest, where Hollingsworth-Hayes was located. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene by D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services.

Detectives identified 33-year-old Jeremiah Jordan of Southeast, D.C., as a suspect and arrested him on September 8, 2023, on a D.C. Superior Court warrant. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder while armed. Court filings and testimony say surveillance footage and text messages tied Jordan to the shootings and that the episode began after an argument between Jordan and Whitaker. A judge found probable cause that Jordan was the shooter and that he had not acted in self-defense; prosecutors assert multiple rounds were fired. The case was indicted and remains pending.

Did anyone in Columbia Heights or Silver Spring see or hear anything that night that could help investigators?