In the early morning hours of July 8, 2017, a verbal dispute in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., turned deadly when 19-year-old Kennedy Javier Amaya-Olivares was shot in the 3500 block of Water Street NW. The aspiring rapper from Severn, Maryland, was with friends when a dispute with occupants of another vehicle escalated during an argument of about five minutes. Demarius Anton Jackson, then 25 and from Hyattsville, Maryland, pulled out a gun, approached Amaya-Olivares and shot him three times, including fatal wounds to the back of the head and the chest. Amaya-Olivares was pronounced dead at the scene; another man was shot and survived.

Authorities identified Jackson as the suspect and charged him. Jackson later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed and assault with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of probation. Is there anyone who knew Kennedy or witnessed that night who can provide more detail about what happened?