In the late evening of March 25, 2020, gunfire on the 3500 block of A Street SE in Washington, D.C., left 33-year-old Zenus Epps unconscious with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a local hospital by D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services and was later pronounced dead. An autopsy confirmed the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the head.

Police soon focused on a suspect. On April 24, 2020, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 26-year-old Eldred Watts of Southeast D.C. Court documents say the shooting happened at close range shortly after Epps had left his girlfriend’s apartment and followed a dispute involving Watts’ girlfriend. A witness identified Watts as the shooter.

Watts later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and to attempted armed robbery; a judge sentenced him to 13 years in prison for Epps’s death, followed by five years of supervised release, with a concurrent five-year term for the attempted robbery. Did anyone in Southeast D.C. see or hear anything that night that could add detail to what happened?