Curtis Lee Jones Jr., 33, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of June 15, 2022, at a Marathon gas station on West Mulberry Street in Baltimore. He was found unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a Toyota Avalon with a gunshot wound to his neck and was pronounced dead at 4:14 a.m. after being taken to a shock trauma center.

Surveillance footage shows Jones and a companion arriving at the station at 3:36 a.m. and going into the store. A short time later a man later identified as 23-year-old Darryon Edwin Cephas appears on the footage; there is no recorded interaction between Jones and Cephas inside the store. After Jones and his companion returned to their vehicle, the footage shows Cephas retrieve a handgun from a backpack, approach the driver side and fire through the window, striking Jones in the neck, then flee the scene.

Police identified Cephas as the suspect and arrested him on July 8, 2022, charging him with first-degree murder and other offenses. The motive for the shooting remains unclear. If anyone has information about Jones, his movements that night, or witnessed the incident, please come forward.