James Dorsey Jr., a 37-year-old Black man, was shot and killed the evening of December 26, 2016, on the 200 block of Cedar Street NW in Takoma, Washington, D.C., just outside a 7-Eleven. The shooting happened about 7:45 p.m. after an argument with two other men; police say one of the men produced a handgun and fired. Dorsey was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators identified and arrested two suspects. On New Year’s Eve, 28-year-old Shawn James Brown was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. A second suspect, William Charlie Bowman, was later apprehended in Georgia by U.S. Marshals, extradited to Washington, D.C., and charged with second-degree murder while armed. Both men were ordered held without bail. Bowman’s attorney asserted his client acted in self-defense, saying Bowman fired when Dorsey lunged at him.

If anyone who lived in Takoma that winter or witnessed the December 26 confrontation has information, please share what is known with the thread.