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On the evening of Friday, August 3, 2018, 19-year-old Thailek Jacob Willis was shot and killed in the parking lot of Edgewood High School in Edgewood, Maryland. Deputies arrived at about 9:19 p.m. and found Willis inside a vehicle with a single gunshot wound to his upper body. Medics transported him to the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The school had been closed and no activities were taking place.

Investigators determined Willis had driven to the parking lot to conduct a drug deal. Two juveniles from Edgewood, 16-year-old Yasin Wallace Powell and 15-year-old Jaylin Jerome Brown, allegedly approached his vehicle armed with handguns and announced a robbery. When Willis tried to drive away, both teens fired; one bullet struck Willis and caused the fatal injury. Powell and Brown were arrested without incident on August 6, 2018, and charged as adults with first- and second-degree murder, armed robbery, first-degree assault, and other related counts; both were held without bail.

Jaylin Brown was later convicted and sentenced. Did anyone who knew Thailek or who was in the Edgewood High School area that night see or hear anything that could help clarify what happened?