On the morning of January 12, 2016, 34-year-old Michael Keith Beers was shot to death during a violent home invasion on Terrace Drive in Waldorf, Maryland. Two masked, armed men forced their way into the residence where Beers was visiting; deputies found him deceased inside the home. Another man at the scene escaped by jumping through a window, and two women present, including one who knew Beers, were not physically harmed.

Investigators determined Beers had been specifically targeted. Authorities say one of the women at the house, Rena Cassandra Crandell, orchestrated the robbery and recruited the attackers. Reigel Paul Wamack is identified as one of the gunmen; after the shooting, Crandell fled with the two assailants. Detectives later arrested Crandell and Wamack in April 2016, and subsequently arrested Bryan Javier Aquice, identified as the second gunman, and Christian Humberto Alvarez, identified as the getaway driver.

In May 2018 Crandell received a 15-year prison sentence with an additional 20 years suspended after pleading guilty to first-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit armed robbery; her plea required truthful testimony against co-defendants. Did anyone in the Waldorf area have information about Beers, Crandell, or the people who were at that Terrace Drive house?