James Madison Mcgee was a 26-year-old Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer. On the night of February 7, 1995, while off-duty in plain clothes, he intervened when a taxi driver was robbed at gunpoint at 25th Street and Good Hope Road SE and drew his service weapon to detain a suspect.

Uniformed officers arrived amid the confusion. One responding officer, Michael A. Baker, did not recognize Mcgee as a fellow officer and ordered him to drop his weapon; when Mcgee did not immediately comply, Baker fired, fatally wounding him. The two robbery suspects, later identified as Richard D. Gibson and Ronald A. Garnett, fled but were apprehended.

Prosecutors initially considered felony murder charges, but determined the robbery had ended before the shooting and dismissed the murder charges. Gibson and Garnett pleaded guilty to robbing the taxi driver of $40 with a pellet gun and were sentenced to five to fifteen years. Officer Baker was later cleared in an investigation of wrongdoing.

Did anyone in the neighborhood witness the events that night or have additional details about what happened at the scene?