Joel David Midgett was 24 when he was fatally stabbed in Washington, D.C. on October 16, 2015. The attack occurred at about 1:10 a.m. in the 200 block of K Street NW; another man was wounded but survived. Midgett was taken to a hospital where he died.

The killing deepened a family tragedy: Joel’s father was killed in 1990 and an uncle was murdered in 2003, making this the third generation in the family affected by homicide in the city. Investigators later identified a suspect and on November 26, 2019 the Metropolitan Police Department arrested 28-year-old Olivia Cartwright-Cole and charged her with second-degree murder while armed. Court documents say she and Midgett were acquaintances and that the fight began after an argument over items Cartwright-Cole believed were taken from her apartment.

In February 2020 a judge released Cartwright-Cole into a High Intensity Supervision Program with GPS monitoring, citing the two-year gap between being named a suspect and the arrest; hearings about compliance with those conditions were held in 2020. Did anyone in the K Street NW area see or hear anything that night that could still help the case?