In the early hours of April 7, 2019, a shooting in the 5000 block of Fable Street in Capitol Heights, Maryland, left two men dead. Raymond Giles, 26, of Frederick, and his friend Trevor Frazier, 24, were ambushed in their car at about 12:15 a.m. Both men suffered gunshot wounds; Frazier was found dead at the scene and Giles died after being taken to a nearby hospital.

Police investigators concluded the attack was planned and tied the killings to 25-year-old Rendell Markeith Johnson of Washington, D.C. Prosecutors said the motive arose from a dispute over a woman Johnson believed was his girlfriend and suspected Frazier of being involved with her. A phone left at the scene, phone records and, according to the trial record, a confession to a then-girlfriend were presented as evidence linking Johnson to the shootings.

Johnson was arrested and charged with murder and firearm offenses. A jury later returned guilty verdicts and he received consecutive life sentences for the deaths of Giles and Frazier. Does anyone have information about Giles’ life in Frederick or the events that led him to Capitol Heights that night?