On Wednesday afternoon, July 10, 2019, 22-year-old Andre Cortez Broadie was shot inside New Creations salon on the 2100 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Southeast in Anacostia. The shop was busy—four employees and five customers were present—when a fight broke out about 3:30 p.m. and gunfire erupted. Broadie was found alive but died shortly after despite treatment by D.C.

Fire and Emergency Medical Services. Witnesses and surveillance footage showed four men fleeing the scene, and investigators recovered a vehicle that had been shot up while processing the scene for evidence and fingerprints. Friends and family said Broadie had been participating in the Violence Interrupters program and was trying to turn his life around; relatives described him as a good kid who had gotten mixed up with the wrong people.

Was anyone in the area that afternoon who can help piece together what led to the shooting?