On the evening of September 24, 2018, a dispute in the 1800 block of Benning Road NE in Northeast Washington, D.C. turned fatal when 25-year-old Marquiawn Williams, a Black man, was shot and killed at about 7:33 p.m. The argument escalated into a physical fight; another person briefly separated them, after which the man Williams had been arguing with armed himself and the fight resumed.

Investigators say Williams was unarmed when he was shot. The Metropolitan Police Department treated the incident as a homicide. On December 10, 2018, authorities arrested Rickie Collier and charged him with second-degree murder while armed. Collier reportedly confessed, saying he took that person’s life; his attorney claimed he acted in self-defense, believing Williams was reaching for a weapon. A judge found probable cause to proceed, noting Collier armed himself after the pair had already been separated and that Collier was on supervised release at the time.

Did anyone in the Benning Road area that evening see the confrontation or have additional information about what happened before the shooting?