On July 2, 2021, gunfire broke out inside a high-rise apartment building on Oak Leaf Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland. Police who responded found two men on different floors with gunshot wounds. Twenty-five-year-old Patrick Davion Gafford was rushed to a local hospital and died from his injuries; the other man survived treatment.

Investigators recovered a handgun near Gafford and determined a second handgun had been fired. Detectives concluded Gafford was not a random victim but a participant in a planned robbery. The probe found that Gafford and another man had arranged to meet the surviving victim to rob him, shots were fired during the encounter, and Gafford was struck while his accomplice fled.

Detectives identified the other suspect as 25-year-old David Johnell Eggleston Jr. of Oxon Hill and obtained an arrest warrant charging him with first-degree murder, armed robbery, attempted first-degree murder, and use of a firearm during a felony; he was apprehended in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2021, and held for extradition. If anyone knew Gafford or has information about the events that day, please share what is known.