Amer Miller was 17 and days away from his eighteenth birthday when he was killed in Prince George’s County, Maryland. A recent Fairmont Heights High School graduate who planned to attend Mount St. Mary’s University on a track scholarship and study law, Miller was robbed of his iPhone X in the 2400 block of Kent Village Drive in Landover shortly after midnight on July 14, 2018. He reportedly encountered the gunman again after the theft and asked for his phone back; the man opened fire. A passerby found Miller and took him to a nearby hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Police arrested 26-year-old Davion Ballinger of Northwest Washington, D.C., within hours and charged him with first-degree murder, saying Ballinger had robbed Miller before shooting him. Ballinger was held without bond after the arrest. Miller had written an essay on ending gun violence and was remembered in his community as a promising student-athlete whose life was cut short.

If anyone knew Amer, his activities in Landover on July 14, 2018, or saw something that could help the case, please share what is known.