In the pre-dawn hours of April 26, 1995, Prince George’s County Police Corporal John Novabilski, 31, was shot and killed while working an off-duty security assignment at a liquor store in Kentland, Maryland. He was sitting in his marked cruiser when a man approached and opened fire with a MAC-11 assault weapon. Novabilski was struck multiple times, later pronounced dead at a local hospital, and the assailant stole his service weapon before fleeing.

Two days after the killing, police arrested 25-year-old Jeffrey Curtis Gilbert based on eyewitness identifications, but the case shifted after a related attack on May 29, 1995. FBI Special Agent William Christian was ambushed and killed in a similar manner; the attacker, Ralph McLean, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot after a shootout. Near McLean’s body were the MAC-11 used in both attacks and Corporal Novabilski’s stolen service weapon, evidence that led to Gilbert’s exoneration. McLean’s hostility toward police was identified as the apparent motive.

Did anyone in the area remember suspicious activity near the liquor store on April 26, 1995?