On the night of January 8, 2020, 18-year-old Malick Cisse was fatally shot in the Shaw neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. Officers found Cisse with a gunshot wound at about 11:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of Seventh Street NW, just outside the Gibson Plaza Apartments. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services transported him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators tied the case to an 18-year-old suspect, William Whitaker of Southeast Washington, who was arrested in May 2020 and charged with first-degree murder while armed. Court documents described a dispute involving a woman who had been Cisse’s former girlfriend and was then with Whitaker; surveillance footage and social media records were used to reconstruct events. According to those documents, Cisse was lured to the Mount Vernon Square Metro area, a white vehicle arrived, and Cisse was shot in the back of the head. The shooting was also connected to a rivalry between crews, and Whitaker was himself shot about 20 minutes later in an apparent act of retaliation.

Did anyone in the Shaw or Mount Vernon Square area see Cisse that night or notice the white vehicle mentioned in reports?