Grady Calvin E. Hawkins, 37, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, was found with severe head trauma and two gunshot wounds to his left eye on the side of a road in Prince George’s County on May 26, 2009. He was taken to Prince George’s Hospital and died five days later; the death was ruled a homicide.

Evidence in the subsequent prosecution included the responding officer’s testimony, medical examiner testimony on cause of death, and firearms testimony that the two bullets recovered were .38 caliber class and had been fired from the same unknown firearm. The investigation led to Martinez Diaz Ferrell, who was tried in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County and convicted by a jury of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Ferrell received a life sentence for the conspiracy conviction and a concurrent 25-year term for second-degree murder.

The available documents do not detail motive or the events immediately preceding the shooting. Does anyone have information about Hawkins’s movements or associates in Prince George’s County around late May 2009?