On the night of May 27, 2025, gunfire rang out in the 5200 block of Haras Place in Fort Washington, Maryland. Two 16-year-old boys were shot outside an apartment building; Thomas Smith Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene and Michael Bassett of Temple Hills was taken to a hospital where he died a short time later. A third teen in the group was shot at but escaped unharmed.

Police say the victims had arrived in a vehicle that had been reported carjacked days earlier in Oxon Hill and that investigators believe the shooting occurred during a suspected illegal drug transaction. Officers observed an SUV fleeing, attempted a traffic stop, and pursued the driver into Washington, D.C., where a 27-year-old man, Duan Goddard, was apprehended and taken into custody. Multiple firearms were recovered and Goddard faces first- and second-degree murder charges and other related counts in Prince George’s County.

Did anyone in the Fort Washington or Temple Hills area see activity near Haras Place that night or know the carjacked vehicle involved?