DMari Norris was 21 when he was fatally shot in an Alexandria, Virginia apartment-complex parking lot on the afternoon of August 30, 2022. He was found on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body and died after being taken to a nearby hospital.

Authorities say the shooting followed an interaction between Norris and 22-year-old Francisco Juares of Alexandria that escalated. A witness at the scene held Juares until police arrived; officers arrested Juares and recovered two firearms. Initial charges included second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Reports indicate the two had been shoving each other just before shots were fired, and investigators recovered a gun that had been fired twice at a location some distance from Norris’s body. Prosecutors later determined they could not disprove a claim of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt and dismissed the murder charge in February 2024.

Does anyone have information about the events that afternoon or knew either man and can help clarify what happened?