In the early morning hours of March 18, 2023, officers responding to a report about a suspicious vehicle found 17‑year‑old Dalaneo Debo Martin asleep in the driver’s seat of a running car on the 3400 block of Baker Street NE in Washington, D.C. Police determined the vehicle was stolen and called for U.S. Park Police assistance. After about 40 minutes of planning, an MPD officer opened a rear door and two Park Police officers entered the back seat to remove the teenager.

Body camera footage shows Martin was startled awake, put the car in drive and accelerated as a struggle unfolded, with one Park Police officer remaining inside and another reportedly dragged alongside the vehicle. The officer in the car fired multiple times as the vehicle continued, then crashed into a house on 36th Street NE. Martin, the father of a seven‑month‑old son, was pronounced dead at the scene and a handgun was recovered from the vehicle.

The shooting prompted family and community outcry and a civil rights probe by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI. Does anyone have additional firsthand observations from that stretch of Baker Street NE on March 18, 2023, or information that could clarify what happened during those minutes before the officers entered the car?