A routine tire purchase turned deadly in the early morning hours of September 14, 2024, at a Capitol Heights tire shop. Anthony Okoye, 41, a Black man who had immigrated from Nigeria about a year earlier and worked at the Ameritech Tire shop on Marblewood Avenue, was shot after a dispute over the cost of new tires. He was a husband and father described as caring and respectful.

At approximately 6:30 a.m., two customers became involved in a heated argument with Okoye about payment. Police responding to a welfare check found Okoye with gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital and died a short time later. The two men fled in a dark-colored Mercedes sedan.

Whoever saw activity around the 1200 block of Marblewood Avenue that morning, or has information about the men who left in the Mercedes, is asked to come forward.