Jose Velasquez-Lemos, 20, and Hilber Martinez-Velasquez, 20, were found with gunshot wounds inside a building on Hamilton Street in the Edmonston area of Hyattsville, Maryland, on Saturday, June 5, 2021. Responding officers pronounced both men dead at the scene after being alerted to the shooting around 8:40 a.m.

Prince George’s County Police opened a homicide investigation and said detectives were working to identify suspect or suspects and determine a motive. Family and community members raised funds to help send the victims’ bodies back to their families. No details about persons of interest, arrests, or the circumstances that led to the shooting have been released.

If anyone has information about what happened on Hamilton Street that morning, please share tips with Prince George’s County Police.