Malakai Tyrelle Cooke was 17 when he was shot and killed in the early morning hours of April 16, 2021. Deputies from the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office found him dead around 2 a.m. in the parking lot of the Country Inn & Suites in the 5500 block of Spectrum Drive in Frederick, Maryland; he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.

Cooke was a student at Brunswick High School. His family says he had been worried for his safety for months and had been staying with friends to protect his immediate family. Investigators reviewed multiple surveillance recordings from the area to reconstruct the events that led to the shooting, and an arrest was made in connection with the killing.

What information might help fill gaps in the timeline that night or explain why Cooke was targeted?