In the early hours of a Sunday morning in January 2017, 27-year-old Jin Chen was found shot inside the Blue Sunday Bar and Grill in Bowie, Maryland. Chen, who co-owned the restaurant on Race Track Road, was one of three people attacked; his business partner, 28-year-old Xue Zou, and the restaurant’s manager, 46-year-old Sherwood Morgan, were also shot. Two victims were dead at the scene and the third later died at a hospital.

The scene was first noticed when a manager, after not receiving an expected call, reviewed the restaurant’s security footage and alerted authorities. Surveillance video showed an employee, bartender 40-year-old Karlief Moye, enter a back office where the three were, pull out a handgun, shoot them, take money from a desk, and flee. A manhunt led to Moye being located in a wooded area in Silver Spring where he shot himself twice; he survived and was hospitalized. Prosecutors later charged Moye with three counts of first-degree murder.

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