On the morning of December 7, 2020, officers responded to a report of a person down on the 400 block of Xenia Street Southeast in the Washington Highlands neighborhood and found 30-year-old Anthony Orr, a man of no fixed address, suffering from a gunshot wound. Emergency services transported him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators initially sought a vehicle of interest described as a possible 2020 Kia K5 with a broken passenger-side window. In January 2021, homicide detectives arrested 28-year-old Dennis Chase of Northeast, D.C., and charged him with second-degree murder while armed. Police said the men were childhood friends who had recently reconnected; authorities allege Chase shot Orr in the head while Orr sat in the passenger seat, then pushed the body from the vehicle and drove about 30 miles to Severn, Maryland, where he attempted to set the car on fire and discarded clothing in a nearby shed before being detained on an unrelated warrant.

If anyone knew Anthony or has information about his last movements or the events that led to that morning, please share what’s known with investigators.