On the evening of January 10, 2021, a candlelight vigil in Gaithersburg, Maryland, turned deadly when 25-year-old Darius Cooper of Germantown was found in the parking lot of an apartment building on South Frederick Avenue with a gunshot wound. Witnesses reported Cooper and another man fighting shortly before the shot; the suspect fled and Cooper was taken to a nearby hospital but died of his injuries. The Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.

Detectives identified 31-year-old Jakel Delante Stone of Glen Burnie as the primary suspect, with DNA recovered from the scene tying him to the incident. Stone was arrested in Anne Arundel County in June 2021 on a criminal warrant and charged with second-degree murder; he was held without bond at Central Processing Unit after his arrest.

If anyone was at the vigil or has information about the fight or the person who fled, please share what was seen or recorded.