On the evening of September 1, 2023, 25-year-old Joshua Fieldings was shot in a shopping-center parking lot in the Woodlawn area of Alexandria, Virginia, and later died at a hospital. Fieldings, who was experiencing homelessness, had been receiving help from the family of 17-year-old Kareem Valentine for showers, laundry, meals and with a CashApp card provided by Valentine’s mother. Earlier that day a dispute over the CashApp card escalated; Fieldings allegedly threw a brick through the Valentine family’s home window and police were called but made no arrest.

That evening the dispute followed Valentine to his job at a Dollar Tree. Around 8:20 p.m., as Fieldings exited a business in the shopping center, a single gunshot was fired. Witnesses saw a 17-year-old fleeing; Fairfax County Police arrived at 8:29 p.m., found Fieldings with a gunshot wound to his upper body, and he later died. Detectives arrested Kareem Valentine that night, recovered a firearm, and charged him with second-degree murder, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and underage possession of a firearm.

Did anyone who knew Fieldings or the Valentine family see or hear anything that night that could add context to what happened?