On the night of June 22, 2021, 18-year-old Kennedy Merrit-Millit of Rockville was found suffering from an apparent gunshot wound at the intersection of Greencastle Road and Turbridge Drive in the Fairland area. Officers arrived just after 11:00 p.m.; they began life-saving measures until Fire and Rescue transported him to a hospital, where he died. Merrit-Millit had recently graduated from high school.

Montgomery County Police opened an active homicide investigation. Detectives from the Major Crimes Division developed the case with help from several community tips. Within a week two 18-year-olds turned themselves in at the county warrant turn-in facility. John Delonte Black Jr. of Burtonsville was charged with first-degree murder and is held without bond at the Montgomery County Detention Center. Annbel Sierra Massilon of Silver Spring was charged with robbery.

Does anyone in the Fairland or Rockville area have information about what happened that night?