On July 27, 2022, at about 10:26 p.m., gunfire erupted in a parking lot in the 4300 block of 4th Street Southeast, Washington, D.C. Responding officers found three people with gunshot wounds. Forty-one-year-old Tijuan Wilson and 19-year-old Ronald Brown were fatally shot; an adult female, who had been Wilson’s partner for more than 18 years, was critically injured but survived. Their children were present in the parking lot and were physically unharmed.

Investigators say the attack followed a July 22 altercation between Brown and 27-year-old Beysean Jones outside a tobacco shop, which included an exchange of gunfire. Police allege Jones believed Brown had shot at him and his child’s mother and that a vehicle followed Brown into the residential lot five days later. At least two shooters reportedly fired more than 60 rounds, and police linked evidence from the earlier incident to the July 27 shooting.

An arrest has been announced in connection with the case. Did anyone in the neighborhood see a vehicle following people into that parking lot on the night of July 27, 2022?