Diamond Moore was 20 when she was fatally shot in Alexandria, Virginia, on the morning of Friday, December 7, 2018. Police responded to a report of a possible shooting in the 5500 block of Holmes Run Parkway and found Moore on the street with an upper-body injury; she was taken to a local hospital and later died of her wounds.

Family said Moore was a student at Davis and Elkins College and had been home recuperating from a car accident that occurred about six months earlier. On the morning of the shooting her mother and fiancé were at work and Moore went outside, at which point she was shot.

A suspect, 32-year-old William Thomas Layton of Largo, Maryland, was arrested the next day and charged with murder, possession of a firearm by a violent felon, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony; he was held without bond. Did anyone in the Holmes Run Parkway area see or hear anything that morning?