On the evening of February 19, 2021, officers responding to what was first reported as a vehicle collision at East Capitol Street and Yacht Place in Capitol Heights, Maryland, found two young men shot inside a car. Twenty-three-year-old Octavaughn Dickerson of Washington D.C. was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds. Nineteen-year-old Anthony Bernard Hunt, also of Washington D.C., was also found dead in the vehicle.

A third adult male was located outside the car with non-life-threatening gunshot injuries and was taken to a hospital. The Prince George’s County Police Department Homicide Unit is investigating; detectives say they do not believe the shooting was random but have not released information about arrests or identified suspects. Investigators continue to examine evidence and conduct interviews to clarify what happened that night.

If anyone has information about Octavaughn Dickerson, Anthony Bernard Hunt, or the circumstances near East Capitol Street and Yacht Place on February 19, 2021, please share what is known.