On the morning of Sunday, April 17, 2011, 24-year-old David Parker Bayard was found unresponsive in his black Acura Integra in a small strip mall parking lot on Bladensburg Road in Colmar Manor, Maryland. He had sustained trauma to his upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene. Bayard was a graduate student pursuing an MBA at the University of Maryland; he had previously earned dual degrees in communication and economics in 2009.

Friends said Bayard had been celebrating a birthday at a Washington, D.C., nightclub the night before and was caught on surveillance footage leaving the club alone in the early hours. For reasons that remain unexplained he ended up in Colmar Manor, a town his family said he had no known connection to. Investigators canvassed the area and sought anyone who saw his vehicle between about 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. that Sunday, but the case produced no suspects.

Bayard is remembered by friends and family as kind and generous. The motive for his killing and the circumstances that brought him to Colmar Manor remain unknown. If anyone saw Bayard’s Acura that morning or has information about his movements, please come forward.