In the pre-dawn hours of September 15, 2021, gunfire on the 4000 block of 1st Street Southeast in Washington, D.C., left Paris Odemns, 37, with fatal gunshot wounds. Odemns, a Black man of no fixed address, was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

Nearly a year later police arrested Malik Seltzer, then 27, charging him with first-degree murder while armed in connection with Odemns’s death. Prosecutors later offered Seltzer a plea deal on June 2, 2023, that would have required a guilty plea to one count of voluntary manslaughter while armed; Seltzer rejected the offer and asked the court to set a trial date. A judge scheduled a trial to begin in January 2024, and the case was moving toward trial as of June 2023.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember the shooting or who saw activity on 1st Street Southeast before dawn that morning?