Edward Pearson, 39, was shot to death inside an apartment at the Parkwest building in Northwest Washington, D.C., on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020. Officers who answered a 9:29 a.m. call in the 2900 block of Connecticut Avenue NW found Pearson on a couch with a fatal gunshot wound to the head; emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. A second man on the same floor had been shot in the ear and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Pearson was of no fixed address and was believed to be visiting an acquaintance in the apartment where he was killed. Detectives identified a suspect and on December 9, 2020 arrested 27-year-old Ernest Cleveland of Suitland, Maryland, charging him with second-degree murder while armed and assault with intent to kill. Police said the arrest affidavit tied the shooting to a dispute between Pearson and the shooter; the affidavit did not detail the dispute.

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