Tristan Vernon Sellers was 32 when he was fatally shot after an altercation that began inside DMV Studios and spilled into the studio’s parking lot on Old Bridge Road in Woodbridge, Virginia. The shooting occurred on November 18, 2019; officers found Sellers unresponsive at the scene and he was later pronounced dead.

Within two days investigators located a suspect, 43-year-old Cinquan Louis Blakney of Washington, D.C., who was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force at an apartment in Greenbelt, Maryland and charged with murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony in connection with Sellers’ death. Blakney later entered an Alford plea of no contest to second-degree murder; the plea was accepted and he was sentenced.