Maxwell Emerson, 25, was a social studies teacher and assistant wrestling coach at Oldham County High School in Crestwood, Kentucky. He was visiting Washington, D.C., with family for the Fourth of July holiday in 2023 and attending a professional seminar at the Library of Congress when he was killed the morning of July 5, 2023.

Around 7:30 a.m., after leaving the Brookland-CUA Metro Station, Emerson was followed for about half an hour and confronted on the Catholic University campus. Surveillance video shows him at one point walking with his hands raised. Prosecutors say the encounter on a park bench in front of Father OConnell Hall began as an attempted robbery, a struggle followed, and Emerson was shot once in the abdomen. He was taken to a hospital and later died.

Police identified 22-year-old Jaime Macedo after a tip and arrested him on July 11; a cut GPS ankle monitor and DNA from a ski mask found at the scene were linked to him. Macedo was charged with first-degree murder while armed and later indicted on felony murder, attempted armed robbery and firearms counts; he has pleaded not guilty and was in trial as of April 2024.

If anyone knew Maxwell or was in that area that morning, please share what you remember.