Dewayne Robert Dunmore, Sr. was 37 when he was shot multiple times in a parking lot in Forestville, Maryland, just before 2 a.m. on January 25, 2008. Lying facedown and gravely wounded, Dunmore made a 911 call in which he named Benjamin Perry as his shooter. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Prince George’s County officers had been conducting surveillance nearby on a suspected illegal gambling operation and captured video of Dunmore and others leaving the building shortly before gunfire. Officers at the scene observed a man later identified as Benjamin Perry firing into Dunmore’s Mercedes. Perry fled in a Dodge minivan, crashed on D’Arcy Road and was seen discarding a handgun; the recovered silver-colored gun was later found to carry Perry’s DNA and matched the weapon used in the shooting.

Benjamin Perry, Jr., of the Hyattsville area, was arrested the same day and charged with first-degree murder. A jury ultimately convicted him of second-degree murder and weapons violations; he received a 55-year sentence. Dunmore was the husband of Germaine and father of three sons.