Petros Gurmessa Amessa was fatally shot on the evening of August 14, 2017, in Northeast Washington. Police found the 33-year-old on the 4300 block of 2nd Street NE at about 10:04 p.m.; he suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. No hometown was listed in early reports.

The Metropolitan Police Department sought the public’s help in the investigation and initially no arrest had been announced. Later federal court filings and press releases link Amessa’s killing to a series of slayings in the 2nd and 4th Streets area and to defendants described as members of a crew that operated in those neighborhoods.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything the night of August 14 that might help clarify what happened?