On July 19, 2022, 33-year-old Audora Williams was found dead inside her home on the 2900 block of Knox Place SE in Washington, D.C., having sustained numerous gunshot wounds. Emergency services responded to a shooting call at about 1:24 pm and found Williams deceased; an autopsy recorded that she had been shot 52 times. Her children were in the residence at the time.

Investigators identified Williams’ intimate partner, Wonell A. Jones, Jr., then 34, as the primary suspect and described the killing as domestic in nature. Court records show Williams had an intimate relationship with Jones, that he had a history of violence and had made threats against her, and that she had previously filed a police report. Jones fled after the shooting and was located and arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 29, 2022, by the U.S. Marshals Florida and Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force; he was extradited to Washington, D.C. and charged with First Degree Murder while Armed. In March 2024 a D.C. Superior Court judge found probable cause for the first-degree murder charge, noting the large number of gunshot wounds as evidence of premeditation.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything around Knox Place on July 19, 2022, or have information about Jones’ movements that day?