A family dispute over drug activity in a Southwest Washington apartment complex ended in murder in the summer of 2015. Forty-seven-year-old Jerome Diggs, known as Beanie, argued for days with his cousin Gary Proctor, who wanted to sell drugs from Diggs’s Greenleaf housing complex apartment. Tensions reportedly included a scuffle at a community cookout before the shooting.

On the afternoon of July 27, 2015, Proctor entered Diggs’s apartment in the 1300 block of First Street SW and opened fire. Diggs was struck multiple times, managed to crawl out the back door and identified his assailant to a friend and to neighbors before he was taken to hospital and pronounced dead.

A day later D.C. police arrested Gary Nathaniel Proctor and charged him with second-degree murder while armed. If anyone knew Jerome, his movements that week, or the Greenleaf complex community, please share what you remember.