Nasrat Ahmad Yar was 31 when he was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., on the night of July 3, 2023. Yar, an Afghan who had worked for U.S. Army Special Forces as an interpreter, had resettled in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife and four children after arriving in the U.S. in 2021. He supported his family by driving a tow truck and working late Lyft shifts.

Shortly after midnight on July 3, Yar was sitting in his parked car in the 400 block of 11th Street NE after dropping off a passenger when a group of teenagers approached. Surveillance footage recorded a single gunshot, four young men running away, and voices from the scene including one saying You just killed him and another saying He was reaching, bro. Yar was found unconscious in his vehicle, taken to a hospital, and pronounced dead of a gunshot wound.

Detectives used the surveillance video in the investigation. In March 2024 a 15-year-old was arrested and later pleaded guilty to felony murder; his thumbprint was found inside Yar’s car. A judge rejected a proposed plea agreement and sentenced the youth to nearly three years in a secure detention facility. Other individuals seen fleeing the scene have not been apprehended.

If anyone has information about the other teens who ran from the scene, please share what is known.