Trevon Marquise Smiley was 26 when he was ambushed and shot multiple times outside his Waldorf apartment on Aldermans Place on the afternoon of April 20, 2020. First responders found him with critical injuries; he died while being transported to a local hospital. The daytime killing did not appear random, and the Charles County Sheriff’s Office opened an intensive investigation.

Detectives identified two teenagers as suspects. Investigators say 18-year-old Avante Kenneth Tazewell of Accokeek was the shooter and that 18-year-old Courtney Ann Smith of Waldorf drove him away from the scene and assisted him afterward. Smith was arrested in Waldorf on April 29, 2020, and charged with being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. Tazewell surrendered to authorities at the District III/Waldorf Station on April 30, 2020, and was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses.

Did anyone in Waldorf see Smiley that afternoon or have information about who was in the area that could help explain what led to this ambush?