On a Sunday afternoon in June 2001 the bodies of 29-year-old Michael Eugene Patten and 24-year-old Lea Anne Brown were found by a bicyclist along a back road in Accokeek, Maryland. Both had been shot execution-style. Patten, a white male, worked at Riggs Bank and was a graduate of Friendly High School and Prince George’s Community College; Brown was a petty officer stationed at the Washington Navy Yard.

The two had been out the night before at a club in Washington D.C. while leaving they stopped in a church parking lot in Fort Washington and were ambushed by a group of men who intended to rob them and steal Patten’s car. After being beaten, they were forced into the trunk of Patten’s Acura Legend, driven to the secluded area in Accokeek and later found dead. All valuables and identification had been taken; Patten’s car was found abandoned days later in Fort Washington.

Five men were arrested and charged.

If anyone knew Patten or has information about who fired the shots that killed him, please share what is known.