On the evening of July 19, 2021, Theodore Dewayne Riley Jr., a 41-year-old Black man, was found in an alley in the 1600 block of Gales Street NE, in the Kingman Park area near the Rosedale Recreation Center, suffering from a gunshot wound. Police responded around 7:42 p.m.; emergency medical personnel pronounced Riley dead at the scene. Investigators recovered a single .45 caliber casing at his feet.

Surveillance footage from that evening showed Riley walking into the alley with a man later identified as Eric Davis. The footage captured Davis shooting Riley once in the head, then quickly leaving and attempting to alter his appearance by putting a long-sleeved shirt over his short-sleeved shirt. On September 22, 2021, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 58-year-old Eric Davis of Northeast, D.C., on a D.C. Superior Court warrant charging First Degree Murder while Armed.

Did anyone in Kingman Park or near the Rosedale Recreation Center see Riley or the two men together that night?