A routine late-night stop at an Exxon on Silver Hill Road in Suitland turned deadly for 27-year-old Wayne Pope on May 3, 2017. After making a purchase shortly after midnight, Pope was returning to his vehicle when an armed man confronted him. A struggle followed and Pope was shot in the upper body; he was found by police and pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators determined the attack was a robbery: the assailant shot Pope and then stole his car before fleeing. Witnesses said Pope did not appear to know his killer. Within a week the Prince George’s County Police Department arrested 24-year-old Furl John Williams of Fort Washington, who was charged with Pope’s murder and was also identified as a suspect in a separate homicide in Germantown that had occurred days earlier.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation at the Exxon or has information about Pope’s movements that night, please share what is known.