Sixteen-year-old Breyona McMillian was killed on November 25, 2016, the day after Thanksgiving, in the courtyard of the Potomac Gardens housing complex on I Street SE in Washington, D.C. Breyona had returned home from a boarding school in Iowa to spend the holiday with family; just before noon while standing with friends, gunfire erupted and she was struck multiple times. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Police said she was not believed to be the intended target.

Surveillance footage showed 30-year-old Saeve Evans firing a weapon at the scene. Evans turned himself in four days later and was first charged with unlawful possession of a firearm because he was a convicted felon; the charge was later upgraded to second-degree murder. Prosecutors said Evans was shooting at a car he thought contained a longtime rival and accidentally killed Breyona. Evans’s defense argued someone in the car fired first and that he returned fire in self-defense, asserting the fatal bullets came from the vehicle.

After a two-week trial, the jury acquitted Evans of second-degree murder and related charges in February 2019; he was sentenced to over four years for unlawful possession of a firearm. Did anyone who knew Breyona or who was at Potomac Gardens that day see something that could still help clarify what happened?