In the summer of 2017 a welfare check on Pine Grove Road in Capitol Heights, Maryland, led officers to 29-year-old Kevin Hawkins, who had been shot on the side of the street. The call came late morning on July 29, 2017; Hawkins was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition and died of his injuries on August 3, 2017. Reports say he had been shot twice in the eye.

Investigators focused on an acquaintance, Martinez Ferrell, 39 at the time of the killing. Evidence placed Hawkins at Ferrell’s Landover residence the night he was shot. A witness saw Ferrell and another person loading a heavy object into the back of Ferrell’s black Trailblazer that night, and Hawkins’ DNA was later recovered from the vehicle. Surveillance footage from the area where Hawkins was found was also used in the inquiry.

Ferrell was arrested and charged with murder; a jury later found him guilty of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Did anyone who knew Kevin or who lived on Pine Grove Road that summer see anything unusual that morning or in the days before July 29, 2017?