Fifteen-year-old Charles Michael Walker Jr. was shot and killed near his Hillcrest Heights home on February 18, 2013. A student at Suitland High School, he was walking at about 4:20 pm in the 4100 block of 28th Avenue when officers answering a welfare check found him on the ground with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Friends said Charles, known as CJ or Chuck, had been carrying a bag with new Timberland shoes he planned to give his girlfriend. He was accosted by individuals who demanded the shoes and, after refusing, was shot. A makeshift memorial of flowers and balloons was left at the scene.

Prince George’s County Police identified and arrested five people in connection with the killing: Derryck Antonio Green, 20; Jermani Maurice Whitner, 18; Glenn Cornell Leach, 23; Tayvon Delonte Williams, 21; and Kevin J. Smith, 21. All five were charged with first-degree murder for their roles in the robbery and fatal shooting.

Did anyone in the community know Charles or have information about what happened that afternoon?