On the morning of July 1, 2022, 46-year-old Claudia Beatriz Morataya was shot and killed in a wooded area off Jefferson Davis Highway in Woodbridge, Virginia, after a verbal dispute with an acquaintance. Morataya, a native of Guatemala who supported herself by selling bottled water in the community, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene around 4:28 a.m.

Police identified 26-year-old Isaiah Gershon McGriff as the primary suspect. A bystander had reported witnessing the confrontation and alerted authorities. Detectives executed a search warrant at McGriff’s residence the next day and recovered a firearm believed to be the weapon used; McGriff was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and held without bond.

Did anyone in the Woodbridge area see or hear anything that morning that could help fill gaps in the timeline?