A domestic dispute in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on the evening of December 2, 2020, ended with 33-year-old Levi Harrison James shot multiple times inside a Winthrop Street residence and pronounced dead at the scene. Police located him after a report of a shooting; investigators say the shooting occurred during a dispute between James and a close family member.

Authorities arrested Levi James’s stepfather, 50-year-old Timothy Tyrone Rice, in connection with the killing. Rice was charged with first- and second-degree murder and other related counts, and a court commissioner ordered him held at the Department of Corrections without bond. The specifics of what sparked the altercation have not been released.

Anyone who knew Levi James, witnessed events on Winthrop Street that night, or has information relevant to the case is asked to come forward.