Jermaine Phillip Bowens, 38, was fatally shot in Northwest Washington, D.C., in the winter of 2017. On the evening of Tuesday, December 26, Bowens was found in the 2200 block of Douglas Street NE with gunshot wounds to his legs and buttocks. Although his injuries were initially assessed as not life-threatening, he died at a hospital shortly after midnight on December 27. Before he died he gave a brief description of his attacker as a man dressed entirely in black and wearing a mask.

Police identified 18-year-old James Mayfield of Northeast Washington as a suspect and arrested him on December 27 following an attempted robbery. Mayfield was charged in connection with Bowenss death and also charged with murder in two other killings; he faced additional counts of attempted robbery and illegal handgun possession.

Did anyone in the Douglas Street NE area see or hear anything that night that could help clarify what happened?