A targeted killing at Arundel Mills mall on the evening of September 13, 2024, left 31-year-old Yant Junior Gomez of Harlem dead. Gomez was found in the rear parking lot near the movie theater complex with a gunshot wound to his upper torso after a 9:30 p.m. call. Patrol officers reached the scene within minutes and he was transported toward the University of Maryland R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center but died during transport.

Investigators say the shooting was arranged around a drug transaction. Surveillance footage reportedly shows a gold pickup arriving while Gomez drove a white BMW; the footage allegedly captures the suspect approaching Gomez’s vehicle, Gomez collapsing onto the pavement, the suspect leaving in the BMW and another person driving off in the pickup. The BMW was later found burned near the suspect’s Baltimore home. Witness identification and cellphone records reportedly placed 45-year-old Dontay Maurice Fitzgerald at the scene.

Fitzgerald was arrested on October 18 and charged with first- and second-degree murder plus firearm offenses; he is being held without bond. Did anyone see either vehicle or activity around the movie theater parking area that night?