Benjamin Ampong, 34, was fatally shot on Corning Avenue in Fort Washington, Maryland, in the early afternoon of May 4, 2022. Prince George’s County officers found him in the 2500 block at about 1:00 p.m. suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A vehicle description was broadcast immediately after the shooting. An officer spotted a matching car, attempted a traffic stop, and a brief pursuit ended when the car crashed in the 4800 block of Wheeler Road. Two people fled on foot; a 16-year-old male from Washington, D.C. was caught and charged as an adult with first-degree murder and related offenses. The other occupant escaped and remains at large.

Investigators later identified a 31-year-old Anthony Shaw of Washington, D.C. as a potential suspect and he was taken into custody, but new evidence provided by his family showed he was not in the area at the time and the charges were dropped. The search for the second gunman and the full circumstances of the killing remain active.

If anyone has information about the person who fled the crash or details about the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.