Dantae Nashaun Simmons, 23, was shot and died after being brought to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie on the evening of July 2, 2018. Someone who had been at the scene drove him to the hospital, and police treated the 500 block of Short Curve Road as the starting point for their investigation. Detectives interviewed witnesses and collected evidence and later identified a specific person they said was the shooter.

In February 2019 Anne Arundel County police arrested Darius Devon Mackell of Annapolis on an arrest warrant and prosecutors charged him with murder, robbery, and firearms offenses in connection with Simmons’s death. On November 17, 2020, Circuit Judge Stacy McCormack acquitted Mackell of murder, robbery, and the firearms charges, concluding in part that the prosecution’s witness was not credible. The killing on Short Curve Road remains unresolved beyond the judge’s finding that the state did not meet its burden.

If anyone knew Simmons, witnessed the shooting, or has information about what happened on Short Curve Road that night, please share what can help the investigation.