Seventeen-year-old James Anthony Smith was fatally shot on the evening of December 18, 2017, after a confrontation over a pair of Nike Air Jordan sneakers on a basketball court at the Frederick Douglass Community Center in Southeast Washington, D.C. He had received the shoes as an early Christmas present from his mother and had them for four days before the attack. James was shot multiple times, ran about a block, collapsed, and was found unconscious and without his new shoes. He died at a nearby hospital less than two hours after first responders arrived.

Police arrested a 16-year-old male from Southeast D.C. in March 2018 and charged him with felony murder in connection with James’s death; the suspect’s name was not made public because of his age. In August 2018 a D.C. Superior Court judge found the then 16-year-old guilty of fatally shooting James during the robbery.

Does anyone have memories of James, the Frederick Douglass Community Center that night, or other information about the case?