On the evening of July 4, 2026, 31-year-old Dakota Keys was shot and killed inside a vehicle in the 1900 block of Brooks Drive in Capitol Heights, Maryland. Officers from the Prince George’s County Police Department arrived about 10:10 p.m. and found Keys suffering from gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Keys was a mother of four.

Investigators focused on her ex-boyfriend, 31-year-old Terrence Penn Jr. of Temple Hills. Penn fled the scene but turned himself in a short time later and has been charged by the Homicide Unit in what police describe as a domestic-related murder. He faces first- and second-degree murder charges and is being held in the Department of Corrections without bond.

What details about Dakota or her movements that evening might help explain how this confrontation occurred, and can anyone who was in the Brooks Drive area around 10:10 p.m. on July 4 provide information?