Kerrice Lewis, 23, was found shot to death inside the trunk of a burning car in an alley in the 800 block of Adrian Street SE in Washington, D.C., on the evening of December 28, 2017. Police responding to reports of gunfire and a vehicle on fire discovered that she had been shot multiple times and the car set ablaze.

Investigators say the killings grew out of a revenge plot: earlier that day a friend of the perpetrators had been killed, and believing a friend of Kerrice’s responsible, the perpetrators tried to lure the intended target. Kerrice and her childhood best friend, Armani Nico Coles, were kidnapped to be used as bait. When that plan failed, Coles was shot and his body pushed from the car onto a Maryland highway; about an hour later Kerrice was shot at least 13 times while in the trunk and the vehicle was set on fire.

Arrests were made in 2018 and later. Malique Lewis and Marcel Vines were found guilty of the armed kidnappings and murders of both Kerrice Lewis and Armani Nico Coles and were sentenced in March 2025. Ashton Briscoe was also charged and his case remained pending at the time of those sentences.

Did anyone know Kerrice or have information about her movements on December 28, 2017?