On the morning of January 3, 2021, at about 11:23 a.m., 22-year-old Joseph Simmons was shot and killed in the 2800 block of Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington, D.C. Officers from the Sixth District and DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded; Simmons was found with apparent gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene. The case was handled by the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch.

Detectives investigated for more than two months. On March 8, 2021, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 25-year-old Rashon Hall on a D.C. Superior Court warrant; he was charged with First Degree Murder while Armed. Prosecutors said the shooting happened at a bus stop and that Hall shot Simmons four times with intent to kill. Hall later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed and faced a recommended sentence of 13 to 18 years.

If anyone witnessed the shooting at that bus stop or has information about Joseph Simmons’ final hours, please share what is known.