Orlando Donald Silver III, 37, was shot and killed on Sunday, November 27, 2016, on the 1300 block of Howard Road SE in Washington, D.C. Two men were arrested and charged in connection with his death. Marquette Tibbs and Cinquan Cartledge, 25, faced charges that included first-degree murder while armed and conspiracy to commit a crime of violence.

At Tibbs’s January 2020 murder trial he described knowing Silver as a business associate and said they had met about four months before the shooting. Tibbs testified they were involved in selling marijuana and that on the day of the incident he had arranged to trade a Smith and Wesson handgun to an associate of Silver’s for what he thought would be a more valuable Beretta. Tibbs said he decided not to complete the trade, that a shot was fired as he was leaving, and that he did not shoot Silver. He testified he believed Silver’s associate fired the fatal shot and that he fled because he was in possession of an illegal weapon.

Are there witnesses or additional details about the events on Howard Road SE that could clarify who fired the fatal shot?