On the morning of August 25, 2024, investigators in New Market, Maryland, found 33-year-old Crimea Malita Baker and her partner, 34-year-old Sean Antoine Lange, dead from multiple gunshot wounds in an upstairs bedroom of their Mandalong Court home. More than 40 shell casings were recovered at the scene; preliminary findings placed the time of the killings at about 1:25 a.m. Four children, all 13 or younger, were in the house during the attack, hid until it was safe to emerge, and a 10-year-old called for help; the children were physically uninjured.

The Frederick County Sheriff described the incident as a targeted, domestic-related crime carried out in a crime of rage and anger, and investigators immediately treated it as such. Law enforcement focused on Crimea’s ex-husband, 33-year-old David Phillip Turner of Miami, Florida; he was arrested in Fort Lauderdale on September 28, 2024, and extradited to Frederick County in December 2024 to face charges including two counts of first-degree murder, home invasion, and firearms offenses. The children were placed with family in Maryland.

Does anyone who knew Crimea or the family have information that could help clarify what led to this attack?