On a spring evening in Boyds, Maryland, 23-year-old Javon Jamal Gordon was shot and killed on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. At about 6:52 p.m. police responded to the 12900 block of Ethel Rose Way and found Gordon lying in the roadway with a gunshot wound to his upper body. Residents began CPR and officers and fire and rescue personnel continued life-saving measures, but Gordon was pronounced dead at the scene and the medical examiner later ruled the death a homicide.

Detectives from the Major Crimes Division determined the shooting was not random. Gordon was on foot when he had a brief verbal interaction with the occupants of a vehicle; the dispute escalated and someone in the car shot him before the vehicle fled. Within days, on April 16, 2021, police arrested 19-year-old Rodjaun Orlando Neal-Williams of Clarksburg and charged him with second-degree murder, alleging he was a passenger who produced a handgun and fired during the altercation.

Did anyone in Boyds that evening see the vehicle involved or have information about the dispute?