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In the early hours of June 4, 2014, 33-year-old Rashard Raigns was found shot and killed on the sidewalk in the 1900 block of Fenwick Street NE in Northeast Washington, D.C. Police arrived about 2:42 a.m. and located Raigns unconscious; he had sustained a fatal gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. Raigns was of no fixed address and had been staying at a nearby homeless shelter.

Investigators determined the killing occurred during an attempted robbery after Raigns had purchased a new laptop. Surveillance footage showed three individuals watching him before approaching. During a struggle over the laptop, one assailant fired a single shot from a revolver. Within a week police arrested 22-year-old William Smallwood and two juveniles, including 16-year-old Demitrich Jones and a 13-year-old who acted as a lookout; Jones later confessed that he and Smallwood planned the robbery and that Smallwood fired the fatal shot.

Does anyone have information about Raigns’s movements that night or about the people seen on surveillance near Fenwick Street NE?