Jarmale Ronald Mitchell was 22 when he was shot and killed on June 4, 2006, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The shooting happened around 5 p.m. in the 4900 block of Wealding Way, and Mitchell was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body next to the townhouse where he lived. He was taken to a local hospital and died shortly after arrival.

Investigators focused on a long-time friend, Ramsey Nolan Bush, then 24 and also of Oxon Hill. There were no direct eyewitnesses to the shooting, but police developed circumstantial evidence: Mitchell had phoned a contact saved as Ham, a nickname for Bush, moments before the killing, and witnesses reported seeing an older model white Lincoln driven by a young woman with an infant leaving the scene, a description that matched a close female friend of Bush. Bush was arrested, tried, and a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and using a handgun in a crime of violence; he received life plus 20 years.