On the evening of June 19, 2020, 28-year-old Alante Moore, a Black man from Southwest Washington, D.C., was shot in the 1500 block of 19th Street SE in the Fairlawn neighborhood. Officers arriving at about 8:12 PM found Moore with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. A second adult male from the same location later arrived at a hospital with a life-threatening gunshot wound.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch investigated the dual shooting. On June 25, 2020, police arrested 20-year-old Philbert Griffith Jr., of Southeast D.C., on a D.C. Superior Court warrant and charged him with First Degree Murder While Armed. Investigators say Griffith had also been treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was questioned at the hospital. At a court hearing on August 26, 2020, a judge found there was substantial evidence to proceed; prosecutors highlighted distinctive clothing, including a belt with a large buckle and a hooded sweatshirt with writing, as identifiers. The defense argued the killing could be tied to a larger neighborhood conflict.

Did anyone in the Fairlawn area see or hear anything on June 19 that could shed light on what led to the shooting?