Kendrick McLellan, a 26-year-old Black man from Baltimore, was found dead in the driver’s seat of his car after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Officers on routine patrol discovered the vehicle parked behind an office building in the 8800 block of Centre Park Drive in Columbia, Maryland, at about 2:14 a.m. on October 12, 2024. Investigators determined the shooting occurred three days earlier, on the evening of October 9, 2024, at about 5 p.m., while McLellan was sitting in his vehicle in the 5500 block of Waterloo Road in Ellicott City. His body and car had been moved from the shooting location to the office park where he was later found.

Detectives reported that McLellan was believed to have known the people who shot him and had picked them up from a residence in Ellicott City. A review of surveillance footage led police to two teenage suspects. On October 15, a 17-year-old student at Howard High School, Tracee Octavious Parker, was arrested at school and found with a loaded handgun in his backpack.

The case prompted concerns about how the juvenile justice system and local schools communicate about students with violent histories. Did anyone see McLellan’s vehicle in Ellicott City on October 9, or have information about movements between the Waterloo Road area and Centre Park Drive that could shed light on what happened?