In the pre-dawn hours of January 17, 2017, gunfire on the 600 block of 14th Place NE in Washington, D.C., left 22-year-old Ronnell Tye Reaves dead. Reaves had been sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked white Kia Optima after walking into a nearby alley with the vehicle’s driver, Matthew Moore. At about 6:35 a.m., Moore opened the front passenger door, leaned inside and fired a handgun, shooting Reaves twice and also shooting the back-seat passenger, 23-year-old Kevin Kennedy.

Police discovered both men with gunshot wounds; Reaves was pronounced dead at the scene. Kevin Kennedy survived initially but later died on July 9, 2018, after lengthy medical care. Matthew Moore was arrested on February 6, 2017, and later pled guilty to two counts of second-degree murder while armed. He received a 30-year prison sentence followed by five years of supervised release.