On the morning of July 20, 2018, James Tyrone Eaton, 26, was fatally shot on the 300 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE in Washington, D.C., near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station. Eaton was with a group of men when he was found suffering from gunshot wounds shortly after 3:43 a.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene and investigators later determined he had been shot in the back of the head.

Police initially sought a silver sedan as possibly linked to the shooting. Surveillance video captured a man walking away from the scene soon after the fatal shot; a witness later identified that man as Curtis Edwards. Edwards, 38, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder while armed and placed on 24-hour home confinement with GPS monitoring under a High Intensity Supervision Program.

On February 28, 2019, the prosecutor asked to withdraw the case against Edwards and a judge dismissed the charges without prejudice; the prosecution was halted at that point and no further public action is described. Does anyone who knew James or was in the area that night have information that could help this case?