On the morning of Saturday, February 17, 2024, 23-year-old Asia Lilly was found dead inside her running vehicle after it had crashed near her Parkville, Maryland, apartment. Police responded to reports of shots fired around 5:25 a.m. and discovered Lilly with gunshot wounds to her upper body; she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators focused on 24-year-old Cameron Murel, the father of Lilly’s child. Police recovered several spent 9mm shell casings on the dashboard and driver’s side of Lilly’s car. An open sliding glass door to Lilly’s apartment revealed a handgun magazine, gun cleaning brushes, and an unfired cartridge. A bookbag containing Murel’s passport also held a partially empty box of 9mm ammunition matching the casings. Murel, a security guard with a state-registered Glock 9mm, was found at his mother’s home where she directed officers to a closet containing his weapon; the gun was the same caliber and brand as the ammunition from the scene.

Murel was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder; he is being held without bond at the Baltimore County Detention Center. Lilly is remembered as a caring, supportive person and a devoted mother whose daughter survives her. If anyone has information about what happened that morning, please come forward.