Michael Covert, 36, was shot on the evening of September 20, 2017, on Medgar Evers Street in Annapolis’ Eastport neighborhood and died of his wounds the next day, September 21. A 41-year-old woman, Lashira Addison, was also struck in the incident, suffering a gunshot to her foot; her injury was non-life-threatening and she was released from hospital care.

Security-camera footage captured a man identified as 25-year-old Barnabas Offer Jr. of Edgewater emerging from an apartment near the Eastport Terrace complex, walking around a community recreation center, confronting Covert and Addison, and opening fire. Offer was later located in an Edgewater residence after a nearly seven-hour standoff and taken into custody; charges initially included attempted murder and related counts and were upgraded after Covert’s death. Two other men, Delvonta Ellis Wright and Craig Belt, were arrested separately with a loaded stolen handgun and charged with burglary and weapons offenses.

Covert was a long-time employee of Chick & Ruth’s Delly. Did anyone in Eastport know Michael, Lashira, or have information about the events that evening?