On the night of January 26, 2019, three young men were found shot to death in Southeast Washington, D.C. Police discovered 26-year-old Javon Abney in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle on the 1500 block of Fort Davis Place, having sustained more than 15 gunshot wounds to the head, neck, and body. Two others in the vehicle and nearby — 24-year-old Tyrik Hagood and 26-year-old Sean Shuler — were also pronounced dead at the scene. All three had grown up together in the same Southwest D.C. neighborhood.

Investigators concluded the men had been lured to the dead-end street. The Metropolitan Police Department arrested two suspects in 2019: 28-year-old Rakeem Willis in June and 30-year-old Jonathan Winston in November. Prosecutors said records and physical evidence tied Willis to the plot and to a stolen Lexus used in the killings. A jury found Willis guilty of three counts of first-degree murder while armed in November 2022 and he was sentenced to 120 years in prison; a judge later granted an acquittal for Winston at trial for lack of sufficient evidence.

Did anyone who knew Javon or the other victims notice anything unusual about them in the days before January 26, 2019?