Quartze Washington

Status:

Solved

Jurisdiction:

Springfield Police Department (MO)

Missing From:

Springfield, Missouri

Case Disposition:

Quartze Washington was arrested in Danville, Illinois on March 30, 2025. Arshaun Bradley is still at large. https://www.ky3.com/2025/03/31/man-wanted-2023-murder-chaviz-nguyen-arrested-illinois/

Summary:

Quartze Washington is wanted for his alleged involvement in the homicide of Chavis Nguyen.

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Circumstances of Offense:

Authorities say that Chavis was driving with his pregnant girlfriend when another vehicle pulled up beside them. The occupants of that vehicle fired gunshots into Chavis’s vehicle. Chavis was tragically killed while shielding his girlfriend from the gunfire. Three suspects have since been arrested for their alleged involvement, including two juveniles who will be prosecuted as adults. Chavis’s homicide might have been a case of mistaken identity and he and his girlfriend did not know the alleged suspects. Warrants have also been issued for Arshaun Bradley and Quartze Washington. As of this posting, their murder cases in Missouri’s court records database has no disposition and no docket entries since April of 2024 (which means they are still wanted). One of the two fugitives, presumably Arshaun may be in Chicago. It has been confirmed that Quartze fled to Texas and then California.

Additional Details:

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Arshaun Bradley and/or Quartze Washington should contact Greater Springfield Area Crime Stoppers at 417-869-TIPS. Arshaun and Quartze should be considered very dangerous. Please consider sharing this so that Chavis’s family can get justice and answers in their loved one’s case.

Case Last Updated:

Apr 01, 2025