On the evening of January 28, 2019, 23-year-old Jordan Alexander Radway was found dead inside a vehicle that had crashed into multiple parked cars in the 11600 block of Stewart Lane in White Oak, Maryland. Radway and a friend, 24-year-old Christian Deon Roberts, both suffered multiple gunshot wounds; the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled their deaths homicides.

Investigators say the violence began with a planned marijuana transaction. Detectives learned an acquaintance, Noah Foster Barnett, arranged for Radway to sell a quarter-pound of marijuana for $600 to Dontaye Jamahl Hunt. Radway and Roberts met Hunt shortly before 8:30 p.m. in the 11500 block of Stewart Lane; witnesses reported hearing gunshots and seeing a vehicle speed away before a 911 call about a serious collision.

Within days police arrested several people. Dontaye Jamahl Hunt, 18, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder on January 30, 2019. Noah Foster Barnett, 18, was arrested January 31 and charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled dangerous substance. A third suspect, 20-year-old Andy K. Panton, was arrested February 11 and faced two counts of first-degree murder. Hunt later told investigators that he and another person were armed with handguns intending to rob the victims.