On December 12, 2006, in Laurel, Maryland, nine-month-old Labria Fogle and her mother, 22-year-old Lisa Laverne Brown, were killed in a shooting inside the home where they were staying on Engleman Drive. The shootings happened in the middle of a weekday near Eisenhower Middle School and occurred in an upstairs room of a shared house; neighbors recalled the neighborhood’s normal routines interrupted by the violence.

Investigators treated the incident as a targeted attack rather than a random burglary, noting there was no forced entry and the shooter either was let in or already had access. Brown had sought legal protection shortly before the killings, and relationship tensions around the household were part of the investigation. Law enforcement identified Lawrence Banks, later reported also as Malik Samartaney, as a person connected to the household and questioned him; authorities looked into supervision-related holds while working the case, but no arrest was made for the killings of Brown and Labria.

The double killing has been described as unresolved, with no one charged in Labria Fogle’s death. If anyone knew Labria or the family, or has information about what happened that day, please come forward with what can help the investigation.