On the evening of May 26, 2018, Jaquon Helm, 40, and his wife Venius Badgett, 35, were shot in the parking lot of the Gardens Apartments on Galveston Street SW in Washington, D.C., after a dispute began over a child riding a bicycle there at night. Badgett told the boy not to ride in the dark; the boy told his mother, who got into a physical fight with Badgett. Helm intervened to break up the fight and, as the couple walked away, the boy called his father, identified by police as 33-year-old Alonzo Lewis.
Lewis arrived and opened fire in front of several children who were outside playing. Helm, a contractor and youth football coach, died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds to his head and chest. Badgett, a school bus attendant, was taken to a nearby hospital and later died. The couple left behind five children, some of whom witnessed the shooting.
Police identified Alonzo Lewis as the suspect and asked the public for help locating him, describing him as armed and dangerous. An 11-year-old eyewitness later identified Lewis as the shooter and authorities moved forward with charges. Does anyone who lived near Galveston Street SW in 2018 recall seeing or hearing anything that night?