On the evening of June 29, 2024, what first looked like a motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Route 2 North and Orchard Avenue in Brooklyn, Maryland became a homicide investigation when 34-year-old Joshua Ray Holland was found with gunshot wounds after falling out of a vehicle. Witnesses reported the vehicle came to an abrupt stop and Holland fell from the driver’s side door onto the road; the vehicle then left the scene. First responders took Holland to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, where he later died. Authorities later located the vehicle near Old Riverside Road and Arundel Road.

The investigation led Anne Arundel County Police to identify a suspect who was also connected to another recent homicide.