Gavin St Aubyn Boothe, 43, was fatally shot on the evening of Thursday, January 8, 2026. He was found with an apparent gunshot wound in the roadway next to an Exxon gas station in the 3000 block of Briggs Chaney Road in Silver Spring. Montgomery County police and Fire and Rescue personnel responded after a report about 7:45 p.m., and Boothe was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy.

The Major Crimes Division is investigating the shooting. Boothe lived in Beltsville and grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas. He is remembered by family as a son, brother, and father, and a GoFundMe page has been set up to assist with the family’s expenses.

If anyone has information about what happened that evening on Briggs Chaney Road, please share what is known with Crime Solvers of Montgomery County.