On the evening of March 10, 2022, in Washington, D.C., 30-year-old Deshaun Cupid was sitting in the driver’s seat of her gray Infiniti sedan in the 700 block of 18th Street Northeast when she was fatally shot at about 6:03 p.m. Her two children, ages one and two, were in the rear seat and were unharmed. Emergency responders transported Cupid to a local hospital, where she died.

Investigators arrested 20-year-old Dominique Brown-Young on June 3, 2022, and charged him with first-degree murder while armed. Prosecutors alleged Cupid was not the intended target and that the actual target was her boyfriend. Surveillance footage reportedly showed Brown-Young and another unidentified suspect near the scene, with one person receiving a phone call moments before the shooting and a person of interest allegedly directing them toward Cupid’s vehicle; seven gunshots were then heard.

In court hearings, witnesses including Brown-Young’s mother identified him from the surveillance footage and Brown-Young reportedly self-identified. A judge found probable cause to proceed to trial and Brown-Young pleaded not guilty to charges that included first-degree murder, assault with a dangerous weapon against a minor, and firearm possession; he rejected a plea offer to reduce the charge to second-degree murder.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember seeing or hearing anything unusual on that block that evening?