A routine workday in late June 2022 ended in violence for 45-year-old landscaper Jason Ford. On the afternoon of June 25 he was supervising his crew in the 1700 block of West Virginia Avenue NE in Washington, D.C., when grass clippings from a leaf blower landed on a parked car. The vehicle’s driver became angry; Ford apologized, but the confrontation escalated when an associate of the driver arrived on a scooter and confronted Ford.

While Ford was seated in his work truck the man opened fire, striking him in the chest. Emergency personnel arrived at about 4:47 p.m. and found Ford with a gunshot wound; he showed no signs of life and was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses described the shooter as a Black male with blue or green eyes who fled on a green scooter.

The Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation. If anyone saw the shooting that afternoon, the scooter leaving the scene, or has other information about who was involved, please share what is known with investigators.