On the evening of May 13, 2014, police in Southeast Washington, D.C. responded to a call for an aggravated assault on the 4400 block of C Street SE and found 36-year-old Elike Rahmon Richardson lying in the street with multiple stab wounds. Emergency responders pronounced Richardson dead at the scene; an autopsy ruled the cause of death multiple sharp force injuries and the manner of death homicide.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch arrested 28-year-old Allen Thomas of Southeast D.C. on June 11, 2014. Thomas was charged with second-degree murder while armed. Charging documents state Thomas told police he acted in defense of his mother, while prosecutors alleged Thomas had willingly and intentionally engaged in the confrontation that led to Richardson’s death. In August 2014 a judge found probable cause to hold Thomas and allow the case to proceed.

If anyone knew Richardson, Thomas, or saw the area on May 13, 2014, please share information that could shed light on what happened that night.