On the evening of July 20, 2019, in Dumfries, Virginia, 32-year-old James Edward Grooms was shot and later died of his injuries after a meeting at Buell Court and Old Triangle Road. The meeting had been arranged as a marijuana purchase but was a setup for a robbery that turned deadly. Officers arrived about 9:43 p.m. and found Grooms with gunshot wounds; he was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Prince William County police identified several people connected to the planned drug deal and robbery. Two brothers from Falls Church, 28-year-old Walter Aristides Guevara-Perez and 23-year-old Alexis Vladimir Guevara-Perez, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to violate Virginia’s Drug Control Act. Two additional suspects from Dumfries, 21-year-old Shawn Deion Brown Jr. and 19-year-old Joshua Eduardo Hurtado, were charged with second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a felony.

Are there readers who knew James Grooms or who have information about the events that night?