Ervin Eugene Watkins, 28, was shot in the early morning hours of September 23, 2018, on the 1400 block of Howard Road SE in Washington, D.C. Around 1:10 a.m. gunfire was reported; Watkins sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation and on October 10, 2018, arrested 26-year-old Terrell Anthony Stephenson of Southeast D.C. Stephenson was charged with first-degree murder while armed in connection with Watkins’s death.

If anyone has information about what happened that night, please come forward to assist the investigation.