On January 15, 2014, 20-year-old Vincent Purvis of Southeast Washington, D.C., was shot and killed in the 600 block of Yuma Street, Southeast, near the closed Ferebee-Hope Elementary School. Police arrived around 3:29 p.m. after gunshots were reported and found Purvis with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition and pronounced dead that evening.

Witnesses said a silver Chevrolet Impala drove through the area and someone inside fired multiple shots at Purvis. After he fell and tried to get up, a car door opened and he was shot again. A witness saw the silver car, with its rear driver’s side window shot out, flee the scene. Hours later police found a 2013 silver Impala on fire about two miles away; the rental was registered to Robert Osborne and showed multiple gunshot holes.

Robert Osborne, 41, of Rockville, Maryland, was arrested more than a week later and charged with second-degree murder while armed. He denied involvement and said he had parked the rental car and spent the afternoon elsewhere; phone records placed his cell phone within about 2,000 feet of the scene minutes after the shooting. Prosecutors later dismissed the charge in October 2014 for insufficient evidence and the investigation remained open. Was anyone in the neighborhood that afternoon able to see or hear more that could help the case?