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Allyssa Banks was 18 when she was fatally shot in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, in the early morning hours of October 19, 2016. A recent Largo High School graduate who had served as student government president, Banks was a college student planning to become an emergency medical technician. On the night of the shooting she and her boyfriend were parking across the street from her mother’s home; Banks stepped out to help him parallel park when they were approached and fired on. She was shot multiple times and later died at a hospital; her boyfriend was also shot but survived.

Authorities described the attack as a random act tied to a feud between two neighborhood crews and said the couple were uninvolved. In February 2018 three men were charged with first-degree murder and related offenses; court papers alleged members of the Riverdale Crew sought retaliation against the rival Largo Crew, that two of the suspects approached the couple and one opened fire, and that a third was the getaway driver. One defendant later pleaded guilty to transporting a handgun in exchange for testimony; the accused shooter’s trial raised questions about the surviving boyfriend’s eyewitness identification.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the couple or the vehicle that night who hasn’t already spoken to investigators?