Kanika Powell was 28 and an Army veteran working as a security contractor at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory when she was shot outside her Laurel, Maryland, apartment on August 28, 2008. She was found in the hallway just outside her front door with her wallet and keys beside her; although alive when emergency services arrived, she died the next day on August 29, 2008. In the week before the killing a man claiming to be an FBI agent came to her door on August 23 and two other men later arrived separately saying they had deliveries for her; she had reported the first incident to police.

Investigators considered multiple leads, including whether her high-level security clearance or her job played a role, a possible connection to the later slaying of Sean Nicholas Green, and speculation about a regional killer convicted as Jason Scott—though Kanika’s murder did not entirely match his known patterns. No suspect has been identified and no arrests have been announced. If anyone knew Kanika, her routines, or saw anything near Deerfield Run in late August 2008, please share what you know with investigators.