Virgil Emanual Simms IV, 26, was found with multiple gunshot wounds on a sidewalk in the 600 block of Pine Street in Cambridge, Maryland, on the evening of October 20, 2024. Officers responded after a Shot Spotter alert around 7:02 p.m.; Dorchester County EMS pronounced Simms dead at the scene. Several vehicles in the area were hit by gunfire and investigators recovered numerous spent shell casings.

The Maryland State Police Homicide Unit led the investigation with assistance from Cambridge Police and the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office. On October 28, 2024, authorities arrested two Cambridge teenagers, 18-year-old Jo’Mir Omar Norman and 15-year-old Briane Jermaine Wongus Jr., charging both with first-degree murder; both were held without bond at the Dorchester County Detention Center. A third man, 20-year-old Jahmere Bryan, was later implicated and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree assault; he was sentenced under a joint recommendation after witness cooperation problems affected the state’s case.

Are there witnesses or anyone with information about the shooting on Pine Street that evening who can help the investigation?