On the evening of October 25, 2022, 60-year-old Michael Anthony Dodson, Sr. was shot multiple times in a parking lot on Old Washington Road in Waldorf, Maryland, and pronounced dead at the scene. The killing followed a physical fight between Dodson’s son and 23-year-old Mehki Joseph Smith of Waldorf. After leaving the area, Smith reportedly returned with a handgun and, having told a witness he intended to kill the son, shot Dodson 25 times when Dodson came to the scene.

Detectives identified Smith as the suspect and took him into custody on October 26, charged with murder. A judge ordered he be held without bond at the Charles County Detention Center. On January 25, 2024, Smith pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and to using a firearm during a violent crime; in April 2024 a judge imposed a life sentence with all but 35 years suspended and a concurrent 15-year term for a separate burglary, followed by five years of supervised probation.

Did anyone in Waldorf see or hear anything in the parking lot that night that could add detail to what happened?