On the night of November 30, 2018, 19-year-old Nya Howard-Reynolds was found with a gunshot wound inside a townhouse on 57th Place SE in Southeast Washington, D.C. She was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Ten people were reportedly present in the house that night and witnesses said the shot came from a bedroom where Nya was later found on the floor.

The man whose bedroom the shooting reportedly occurred in, 22-year-old Robert Theodore Smith, initially told police Nya had shot herself. The Metropolitan Police Department’s investigation led to Smith’s arrest on December 3, 2018; he was charged with second-degree murder while armed and held without bond after a judge found probable cause. At a later hearing tensions among family members erupted into a fight in a courthouse hallway.

Who knew Nya or was at the townhouse that night and can shed light on what happened?