On the evening of February 19, 2016, 21-year-old Dante Lamont Brian Kinard was standing with a group of people in front of a convenience store on the 1800 block of Benning Road NE in Northeast Washington, D.C., when gunfire erupted at approximately 9:45 p.m. Kinard was struck in the back and right thigh and died a short time later at a local hospital.

Investigators tied the shooting to an earlier robbery on February 15, 2016, when Kenneth Adams and two others robbed a woman near 21st Street and Maryland Avenue NE and threatened that her brother would be next. After the brother confronted Adams and his associates, Adams returned on February 19 from 21st and Maryland to the area of 19th Street and Benning Road NE with several others. In the parking lot Adams allegedly raised a .40-caliber revolver and fired; the intended target escaped, but Kinard was struck and killed.

An arrest of Kenneth Adams followed on June 15, 2016, and a jury later found him guilty of first-degree murder while armed and related weapons offenses. Does anyone have information about Kinard’s life, the people who were with him that night, or the circumstances leading up to the confrontation?