On a late September night in 2016, 18-year-old Mason Cameron Atkins of Deale, Maryland, was shot and killed in La Plata after a confrontation outside an outdoor party on Mona Farm Place. Atkins and several friends had been asked to leave the gathering; after pulling over a short distance away, they were passed by a separate group who had also been ejected. An argument became physical, and when one of Atkins’ friends used pepper spray to try to end the fight, one of the other vehicle’s occupants, identified as 18-year-old Tyreq Kaylin Tilghman, produced a handgun and fired several shots into the car occupied by Atkins and his friends. Atkins was struck and later pronounced dead at the scene; another occupant of the car survived.

Four people from Waldorf were arrested in connection with the incident and charged as adults: Tyreq Kaylin Tilghman, Kevin Averell Jones, 18, Talivah Laraiah Salahuddin, 17, and Shanya Imari Milstead, 17. Court action followed, including a lengthy sentence for Tilghman as the shooter and shorter or suspended penalties for the others.

Does anyone have information about the party on Mona Farm Place that night or recall seeing the vehicles involved?