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The autopsy was a private matter...handed over to the family. Beyond that, nothing has been said in public.

I lived and worked in the Arlington area for 3.5 years, and read through the daily news over DC, the two Maryland counties and Arlington over crime a good bit. I’d never been to the region and became fascinated over the various criminal elements existing in the region.

Most of the hundred odd murders in DC each year...was mostly black on black type situations...pay-back or revenge type killings, or simply ‘disrespect’. So it’s a bit rare to have some white guy killed...then the cops say robbery, when there’s not a single thing missing from the guy. I would add that most folks who are robbed...probably on the scale of 99.99-percent...don’t get shot or stabbed as a result of the robbery.

The one aspect though is the time of the murder...4:20 AM. There’s a typical trend on most robberies in DC. If you frequent the subway areas...you go when there’s a lot of potential (say 5 PM to 9 PM). Going out to rob a guy at 4 AM? It’s just awful rare. The neighborhood? Upscale to some degree and just a 20 minute walk from the White House. He leave the bar at 1:45 AM. That’s roughly 2.5 hours from the moment that the gunshot is noted (they added the sound technology into the city a year or two prior). It’s 1.8 miles to his apartment where he’s noted being near when shot.

A guy can typically walk a 1.8 range in about 35 minutes (walking slow). A bit faster pace...maybe in 25 minutes. So the question...if you subtract the time...what was he doing out on the street for two empty hours? Walking in circles? Was he drunk enough to just walk west and then realize his mistake? This is the part of the story which makes no sense. The last two hours of Rich’s life, and he obviously stood there and had a conversation with someone. With the bruises that he had....it wasn’t a friendly conversation in the end.