On the night of February 17, 2024, 24-year-old Dajuan Kyree Simmons of Aberdeen was shot and killed inside D&M’s Tiki Bar and Crab Deck on Pulaski Highway in Edgewood. Deputies found Simmons with multiple gunshot wounds after a call just after midnight; he was taken to the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and pronounced deceased shortly after arrival.

Witnesses said tension between Simmons and a man later identified as 33-year-old Parrise Marcellous Valentine became visible when they saw each other in the bar. Simmons tried to walk away, but Valentine followed him, fired a shot that knocked Simmons to the floor, then stood over him and fired several more times before fleeing through a back door and leaving in a nearby car.

Harford County detectives identified Valentine, and an arrest warrant was issued February 18, 2024. He was located in Philadelphia and arrested February 19, 2024; in an interview he admitted to killing Simmons and referenced two earlier fights that had been filmed. Does anyone have information about Simmons’s life in Aberdeen or the events at the bar that night?