In the early morning hours of April 14, 2017, two gunshots were heard in Eden, Maryland. A neighbor on Flower Hill Church Road later saw a body in the backyard and called 911. Maryland State Police identified the victim as 22-year-old Walter Jaquan Whitehead of Salisbury. An autopsy confirmed two gunshot wounds and ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators focused on Marquel Flat Brumskin after learning he was the last person seen with Whitehead on the evening of April 13. Whitehead’s father and girlfriend identified Brumskin as the driver of the car Whitehead rode in that night. A neighbor reported hearing two shots at about 1:30 a.m., and cell phone records placed a phone belonging to Brumskin near Flower Hill Church Road around 1:36 a.m., contradicting Brumskin’s statement that he had not left his home after 11:30 p.m. A 9-millimeter projectile recovered from Whitehead’s body matched a bullet found during a search of Brumskin’s residence.

Brumskin was arrested in April 2017 and tried in November 2017. A jury acquitted him of first-degree murder but convicted him of second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and using a firearm during a violent crime. In March 2018 a judge sentenced him to a total of 50 years in prison. Does anyone have additional information about Whitehead’s activities that night or witnessed the area around Flower Hill Church Road?