On March 27, 2021, a violent confrontation inside an apartment building in the 4200 block of 6th Street Southeast, Washington, D.C., ended with 34-year-old Evan Wood of Oxon Hill, Maryland, being fatally shot. According to reports, Wood and a friend were confronted by a man armed with a handgun. A physical struggle moved from inside the building into a nearby courtyard; Wood broke free and ran but was shot in the back of the leg as he fled. He continued for a couple of blocks before collapsing in a yard on Forrester Street Southeast and died there.

Police located Wood the next day, March 28, 2021, at about 1:33 p.m. in the 600 block of Forrester Street and pronounced him dead at the scene. The Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Branch traced the initial altercation to the 6th Street apartment building. The suspect, identified as 24-year-old John Philogene of Washington, D.C., was arrested on April 27, 2021, and later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed; he received a nine-year prison sentence. After the shooting, it was reported that Philogene and another person warned Wood’s friend against speaking about the incident.

Does anyone have information about the events inside the apartment building that night or about witnesses who were nearby?