On the evening of January 14, 2018, 14-year-old Steven Slaughter was shot multiple times while walking home with two friends in the 1700 block of Minnesota Avenue SE in Washington, D.C., a block from his house. The friends were not injured; Steven was taken to a hospital and died that same evening. He was a ninth-grader at Friendship Collegiate Academy who had hoped to play college football.

Metropolitan Police detectives treated the incident as an attempted robbery. About a week later, officers chasing a vehicle stolen in an armed carjacking found that car had crashed; police recovered the murder weapon and other forensic evidence inside. That evidence led to the arrest on March 5, 2018, of 21-year-old Anthony D. Allen of Southeast Washington, charged with first-degree murder while armed. Investigators said at least one other person was involved, and it was unclear who fired the fatal shots.

In December 2018, Anthony Deandre Allen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed and attempted robbery while armed; his plea included agreed sentence ranges. Does anyone with information about the people who were with the stolen car that night or who saw the group on Minnesota Avenue SE have details to share?