On the night of October 7, 2008, 22-year-old Bobby Justin Ennels was found fatally shot in a vehicle on the 500 block of Nalley Road in Landover, Maryland. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Two other people were in the car: 22-year-old Anthony John Cash, who also died from his injuries, and a 16-year-old female passenger who was wounded and survived.

Investigators concluded the killings were a targeted effort to silence Ennels because he was a witness in the 2006 murder of Raymond Brown and was scheduled to testify against the accused, Jamaal Alexis. Authorities say the shooting was carried out to prevent that testimony.

On June 30, 2009, Rashadd Alexis, brother of Jamaal Alexis, was arrested and charged in connection with the killings, including first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder Bobby Ennels. After a trial that ended in February 2012, a jury convicted Rashadd Alexis of conspiracy to murder Bobby Ennels; he received a life sentence. Jamaal Alexis was separately charged with solicitation to commit Ennels’s murder.