On December 8, 2022, 61-year-old clerk Ayalew Wondimu was killed while working at the Dash In convenience store at a Shell station on New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. Surveillance shows a customer, later identified as 31-year-old Torrey Damien Moore of Silver Spring, enter the store, get into a verbal dispute with Wondimu, and begin throwing energy drink bottles that struck him. Wondimu picked up a metal pole to try to defend himself and get Moore to leave. Moore pulled a handgun and shot Wondimu multiple times, then shot him again over the counter after he had fallen. Wondimu was pronounced dead at the scene, having sustained three gunshot wounds.

Police located Moore at the Enclave Apartments across the street and arrested him after executing a search warrant there on December 9, 2022. Inside the apartment officers found the decomposing body of 26-year-old Denise Middleton, who was eight and a half months pregnant; an autopsy showed she had been shot multiple times. Moore later said he had been in a relationship with Middleton and that a fight about a month earlier had resulted in her death. Moore was charged in Wondimu’s killing with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm while committing a felony.

Does anyone have information about Wondimu’s final shift, the dispute that preceded the shooting, or Middleton’s whereabouts in the month before her death?