WASHINGTON -- A D.C. mom is still searching for answers, four years to the day since her son was murdered. Like far too many moms, Rochica McBryde is still waiting for justice.
Police have yet to arrest anyone in the shooting of her son, Gregory McBride, 21, who was simply a bystander in what may have been a neighborhood beef.
"My son's last outfit that he bought," McBryd said, pulling out a package with an athletic shirt and shorts from the shrine to her son she keeps in her mother's District Heights apartment. "He never got to wear it."
Someone shot and killed Gregory McBryde just after midnight on May 1, 2015.
It haunts every moment of his mother's memory.
"I heard shots," she remembered. "I panicked and I texted my son. And I said, 'They're shooting, are you ok?"
But Gregory never answered her text. Next thing she knew, three boys were knocking on her door, screaming and crying.
"I opened my door, and they said, 'Ms. Rochica, can you come outside?'" she recalled. "I could not walk, because I looked to my right, and I saw my son laying on the ground. And I asked the police, can you just tell me, is my son going to be okay?"
Medics raced him to the hospital.
"He was shot once in the chest. And that bullet, it did something to his heart, so they couldn't save him," his mother said, weeping.
Mayor Muriel Bowser just kicked off her summer crime initiative.
"Every life matters. Justice matters. Safety matters," the mayor said.
But in four years, police have been unable to solve the murder of Gregory McBryde in his own back yard in Columbia Heights.
"There was video in this case. But it has not got us to the point where we are able to make an arrest," said Assistant Police Chief Robert Contee.
"Whatever they have, the pictures, they need to put it out there," responded McBryde. "It might be blurry to them, but you never know what someone else might see."
Greg McBryde was the father of a three-year-old. His mom said Zane is seven now, and struggling without his dad.
Rochica McBryde will be back at Harvard Street and Columbia Road Northwest at 7 p.m. Wednesday night, releasing balloons in memory of her dead son -- and hoping someone will call the police and tell them who killed him.
"We need to put the guns down, cause they're hurting people," she said. "The person that's pulling the trigger, it could be you next."