Winter 1993 saw a wave of drive-by shootings in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C., that terrorized residents. The attacker, described as firing from a blue car, struck pedestrians at random in a series of eleven attacks that killed at least two people and wounded four others.

One of the victims was 61-year-old Nello Hughes, killed during the spree attributed to the so-called shotgun stalker. Investigators later arrested 29-year-old James Edward Swann Jr. after finding a Mossberg 500 C shotgun in his 1993 Toyota Tercel. Ballistics testing reportedly matched that shotgun to the shootings, and Swann was charged with Hughes’s murder.

Does anyone have memories of that winter in Columbia Heights or Mount Pleasant, or information that could shed more light on Hughes and the other victims?