On the night of August 24, 2020, 22-year-old Charles Ray Mosby Jr. was shot and killed in a Columbia Heights strip mall parking lot after meeting three men in the 4600 block of Central Avenue NE. Surveillance footage showed an apparently amicable encounter and captured the three men handling a gun and passing it among themselves before Mosby arrived. As Mosby turned to leave, one of the men drew a firearm and shot him multiple times in the back at close range. First responders found Mosby with several gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital and later died.

The three men fled in two vehicles. Charges were filed within days: one suspect was arrested the day after the shooting and warrants were issued for the others, who were described as public safety and flight risks. Mosby was a father to two children, Isabella Katherine-Marie Brown and Chanze Raymond Mosby, and is survived by his parents, Tamika Thompson and Charles Mosby Sr., and a wide circle of family and friends who remembered him as loving and goofy.

Did anyone see Mosby or the vehicles in that parking lot that night who hasn’t already spoken with investigators?