On October 2, 2022, Brandon Wims, 31, of Maryland, was shot while seated in a vehicle at the Old Mill Gardens apartment complex in Mount Vernon, Virginia. He was in the car with two other people when a man approached and opened fire, striking Wims multiple times in the upper body. The driver rushed Wims to Inova Mount Vernon Hospital; Wims was later transferred to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he died. The other two occupants suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Fairfax County detectives identified 43-year-old Kyjuan Omar Braxton Trott of Mount Vernon as the suspect. Investigators say Trott and Wims were acquainted and that the shooting followed a dispute between Trott and his wife, who was one of the people in the car. Trott allegedly fired multiple shots into the vehicle and fled in a silver Nissan Sentra; warrants were issued charging him with second-degree murder and firearm offenses.

Trott remained at large for nearly two months as authorities conducted a manhunt and offered a reward for information leading to his arrest. On December 1, 2022, after a brief police pursuit, Kyjuan Trott was taken into custody in the Mount Vernon area. Does anyone have information about Brandon’s last hours or about the events at Old Mill Gardens that night?