Deandre Hawkins was 24 and had no fixed address when he was shot on Monday morning, April 22, 2019, in the 5300 block of E Street Southeast in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sixth District officers found him with a gunshot wound at about 10:49 a.m.; DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services transported him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead after life-saving efforts failed.

Detectives treating the death as a homicide came to believe the shooting resulted from a robbery. Police quickly identified a suspect and obtained a DC Superior Court arrest warrant for 20-year-old Keonte Johnson of Southeast, charging first-degree murder while armed under the felony murder statute. Johnson, described as a Black male about 6 feet tall and 150 to 160 pounds, was arrested on May 15, 2019, and later faced multiple charges including armed first-degree murder while committing a robbery, armed robbery, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and carrying a pistol without a license. He pleaded not guilty in June 2020; the case progressed to a guilty plea in February 2021.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything about a robbery in the 5300 block of E Street Southeast that morning?