On the evening of June 19, 2018, 28-year-old Andre Simmons Jr. of Bowie, Maryland, was riding a scooter near his mother’s home when he was deliberately struck by a car. Two armed men emerged, pistol-whipped him, bound his hands with zip ties, and forced him into their vehicle in what investigators describe as a planned kidnapping.

The captors contacted Simmons’ family and demanded a ransom. The family paid $7,000, dropping the money at a designated location in the early morning hours of June 20, 2018. About an hour after the ransom was collected, Simmons was found shot 19 times in an alley in the 600 block of Atlantic Street SE in Washington, D.C., his hands still bound by zip ties.

Investigators identified and arrested four men — Darin Moore Jr., Gabriel Brown, John Sweeney, and James Taylor — who had planned to target Simmons and his associates for robberies. All four were convicted at trial and sentenced to life in prison. Did anyone in the area see activity around Atlantic Street SE or the ransom drop on June 20, 2018?