On the morning of April 16, 2022, at about 10:44 a.m., Seventh District officers responded to a reported shooting in the 1200 block of Southern Avenue Southeast in Washington, D.C. In an alley they found 28-year-old Black man Darron Keith Holmes II unconscious and not breathing from apparent gunshot wounds. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel pronounced Holmes dead at the scene.

Investigators identified a suspect and on June 16, 2022, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 29-year-old Robert Baskerville on a D.C. Superior Court warrant; he was charged with second-degree murder while armed in connection with Holmes’s killing. Prosecutors later obtained court approval to conduct DNA testing on blood and other evidence recovered from a vehicle believed tied to the incident after a hearing on November 1, 2022.

As of September 15, 2026, a jury returned a not guilty verdict and Baskerville was acquitted of all charges. The murder of Darron Holmes remains unsolved. Does anyone have information about Holmes, the 1200 block of Southern Avenue Southeast, or the events that morning?