Christine Chase, 48, was fatally shot in an alley off the 1200 block of Raum Street NE in the Trinidad section of Northeast Washington, DC, late on Friday, May 13, 2022. Police and medics found her on the pavement in a narrow cut-through behind rowhouses and apartment buildings; she had no fixed address and the alley was a place where people without stable housing sometimes sought shelter. Officers and DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services pronounced her dead at the scene.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch processed the alley as a crime scene. At least one other person was wounded on the same block that night and survived. The department circulated a reward flier offering up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Investigators later focused on a man from Maryland. On January 5, 2023, Maryland Transportation Authority Police arrested 50-year-old Reginald English of Bladensburg, Maryland, on a DC Superior Court warrant connected to the Raum Street homicide; he was brought to the District and charged with second-degree murder while armed. In March 2023 a DC Superior Court judge granted a prosecution request to dismiss the local case so the matter could proceed in federal court.

Did anyone in the Trinidad neighborhood see or hear anything in that alley on the night of May 13, 2022?