Maurice Cortez Mercer II, 30, was found dead inside his Germantown home on Cross Ridge Way after a welfare check on January 3, 2018. Responding Montgomery County police located Mercer with a fatal gunshot wound; the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators reported finding a McDonald’s bag at the scene that produced a fingerprint match to 30-year-old Quinnton Eric Brown of Columbia. Police say Brown had visited Mercer’s home days before the killing, leaving Mercer fearful, and friends told authorities there had been an ongoing dispute between the two men. Detectives obtained a first-degree murder warrant and arrested Brown on April 12, 2018; court records show he was on supervised probation at the time and was held without bond.

Did anyone in Germantown know Maurice or witness tensions between him and Quinnton Brown?