On the night of Thursday, August 22, 2019, at approximately 10:02 pm, gunfire interrupted the 3400 block of 18th Street, Southeast, Washington, D.C. Officers from the Seventh District found 28-year-old Ronald Brown unconscious with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene and his body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch led the investigation. Months later, on Monday, November 18, 2019, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 26-year-old Melvin Simmons of Temple Hills, Maryland, and charged him with First Degree Murder while Armed in connection with Brown’s killing.

Does anyone have information about Ronald Brown’s last movements that night or about others who might have seen activity in that block around 10 pm?