Shortly before dawn on November 30, 2016, a neighbor found a man lying in the roadway on the 5300 block of Crittenden Street near Edmonston Road in Hyattsville and called for help. Officers arriving around 6:40 a.m. discovered 40-year-old Ramiro Moya of Bladensburg with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene and detectives opened a homicide investigation.

Initial public information described a street-side killing with no immediate suspect identified and investigators working to establish a motive. Federal prosecutors later described a murder-for-hire plot that they say originated in November 2016 when Miguel Antonio Renderos allegedly offered $10,000 to have the victim killed. According to the government’s account, Jose David Navarro-Cervellon acted as a middleman, connecting Renderos to Miguel Angel Ayala Rivera and arranging logistics, with Ayala Rivera and Luis Cruz Hernandez carrying out surveillance and the killing on November 30.

Navarro-Cervellon was later tried and convicted in federal court on murder-for-hire and related charges and sentenced to life in prison; others named by prosecutors pleaded guilty or were convicted. If anyone knew Ramiro Moya or has information about what happened that morning, please share what can help the investigation.