On the morning of Saturday, February 26, 2022, the body of 45-year-old Reginald Scott of Washington, D.C., was found unresponsive inside a parked vehicle in a business parking lot on Columbia Pike in Arlington, Virginia. Preliminary investigation indicated he had sustained a gunshot wound, and the Arlington County Police Department’s Homicide/Robbery Unit opened the case as a homicide. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was asked to perform an autopsy to determine the official cause and manner of death.

Evidence recovered at the scene and witness interviews led detectives to identify two possible suspects. By the next morning, arrest warrants were issued and two individuals were located at a nearby bus stop on Columbia Pike at South Quincy Street and taken into custody without incident. The arrested were named as April Puckett, 46, and James Harris, 48, both listed as having no fixed address. Puckett was charged with murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and being a felon in possession of a firearm; Harris was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Both were held without bond at the Arlington County Detention Facility.

Does anyone have information about Reginald Scott or the area around Columbia Pike that could help investigators? Please share tips with the authorities.