Twenty-year-old Jasmine Jerona Banks of District Heights, Maryland, was shot in the early morning hours of Monday, August 8, 2011, in the 7900 block of Central Avenue in Capitol Heights, near a nightclub. Patrol officers arrived about 2:44 a.m. and found Banks and a male companion both suffering gunshot wounds. Banks sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

Her injuries proved fatal and she was pronounced dead on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 9, 2011. The male companion was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The Prince George’s County Police Department Homicide Unit opened an investigation, appealed to the public for information, and said detectives were working to identify a suspect or suspects and determine a motive. No arrests or public identifications of suspects were made in the immediate aftermath and the investigation remained ongoing.

If anyone has information about Jasmine’s killing or was near Central Avenue in Capitol Heights around 2:44 a.m. on August 8, 2011, please contact the Prince George’s County Homicide Unit.