On the evening of May 24, 2019, police responded to a Roby Avenue home in Beltsville, Maryland, where 30-year-old Cesar Zayas had been fatally shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators tied the killing to a man identified as 25-year-old Akram Hussein of Temple Hills.

Detectives say Hussein met Zayas through a mutual acquaintance and developed an intense fixation on that acquaintance’s relationship with Zayas. Witnesses reported seeing Hussein outside Zayas’s home on multiple occasions, and they told police Hussein had threatened to kill Zayas the previous summer. Following the investigation, Hussein was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree murder and was held without bond.

The case records a troubling escalation from reported obsession and threats to deadly violence. Does anyone have information about Cesar, his movements around May 24, 2019, or about activity near Roby Avenue that night?