Ronald Steven Banks, 30, of Washington, D.C., was shot and killed on June 6, 2023, at Washington National Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland. He was serving as a pallbearer at the funeral for 10-year-old Arianna Davis when a dispute erupted between attendees and 48-year-old Wilson Chavis, the owner of the funeral service company handling the burial. The conflict reportedly stemmed from a long-standing business rivalry between Chavis and a separate funeral service company that Banks and another woman were affiliated with.

Witnesses said Chavis became agitated during the confrontation, pulled a gun and fired two shots. Banks was struck and taken to a local hospital, where he died shortly afterward; the other shot grazed the woman accompanying him. Chavis fled the cemetery but was apprehended by a Morningside Police Department officer soon after.

Did anyone at the funeral or in the community witness the confrontation or have information about the prior business rivalry that led to this deadly encounter?