On the evening of March 23, 2021, Henry Javier Cruz, 35, was shot and killed in the 7400 block of West Park Drive in the Lewisdale neighborhood of Hyattsville, Maryland. First responders pronounced Cruz dead at the scene around 8:10 p.m.; a second man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Prince George’s County Police Department detectives treated the case as a homicide and stated early on they did not believe the shooting was random. Investigators publicly identified a suspect a few weeks after the attack: an arrest warrant was issued for Davie Josue Serpas of College Park on charges including first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and first-degree assault. Police said the shooting appeared to have arisen from an argument and later announced they believed Serpas had fled the area.

A reward of up to $25,000 was offered for information leading to Serpas’s arrest and conviction. Anyone with information about Cruz, the shooting, or Serpas’s whereabouts is asked to contact the authorities.