Rico Myers, 25, was shot around midday on February 16, 2015, in the 6100 block of Clay Street NE, near the Capitol Heights Metro station in Northeast Washington, D.C. Officers who responded to gunfire found him moments later in the 300 block of 61st Street NE with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital and died. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators reported that just before noon Myers and a friend met three young men in an alley off 61st Street NE for what prosecutors described as a planned PCP transaction. During the encounter one of the men pulled a handgun, demanded Myers’s belongings and, while others rifled pockets, Myers fought back and was shot four times. He staggered out of the alley and collapsed on the sidewalk.

Within weeks police announced arrests. By April 2016 all three defendants had pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court: Tavon Pinkney, then 20, pleaded to second-degree murder while armed with a plea calling for a 17-year term; William Bass, 18, and Kalif Brown, 22, pleaded to assault with intent to rob while armed and robbery respectively, with sentences imposed in July 2016 matching agreed terms. Did anyone in the area around 61st Street NE in February 2015 see or hear anything that could shed more light on this midday robbery-turned-homicide?