On the night of July 4–5, 2020, a Fourth of July party in the 1600 block of Cananaro Drive in Annapolis turned deadly when gunfire broke out around 12:40 a.m. Nineteen-year-old Justin Keith Beasley Jr., a male originally from North Carolina, was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body amid a large, chaotic crowd. Patrol units performed CPR and he was taken to a local hospital, where he later died.

A second 19-year-old male was also shot and hospitalized. Anne Arundel County homicide detectives and the Evidence Collection Unit processed the scene and interviewed several partygoers. Authorities have ruled Beasley’s death a homicide, describe the investigation as active and ongoing, and say multiple eyewitnesses at the party have not yet provided information. A financial reward has been offered for tips that lead to an arrest and conviction. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been made.

Did anyone at the party or nearby that night see anything that could help investigators?