On the evening of September 3, 2019, a dispute that began earlier that day ended in gunfire on a street in Washington, D.C. Kalin Louis Middleton, 28, was a passenger in a BMW on Eastern Avenue, NE when the driver noticed a green two-door Lexus following them. After making several turns, the BMW driver pulled over on the 900 block of Division Avenue, NE and urged Middleton to confront the person pursuing them.

The driver of the Lexus, identified as Lavelle Watts, approached the BMW and opened fire into the passenger side. Both Middleton and the BMW driver were struck; the driver managed to get the vehicle to a hospital. Middleton died of his injuries at the hospital; the driver survived after treatment.

Investigators linked the suspect vehicle to a person connected to Watts, and phone records showed Middleton and Watts had communicated two days before the shooting. Did anyone in the neighborhood see the green two-door Lexus that night or recognize the men involved?