Dylan Migel Perez, 24, was killed in a targeted triple shooting in Columbia, Maryland on the night of October 16, 2023. Police found one wounded man outside the Exxon on Foreland Garth shortly before 10 p.m.; Perez and another injured man later arrived at Howard County General Hospital, where Perez died and the two other victims survived. Perez was Black/African American and a father, brother, uncle and aspiring business student at Morgan State University.

Investigators described the attack as targeted rather than random. No suspects were identified immediately; authorities offered a reward for information. On November 2, 2023, two arrests were announced: 18-year-old Shamond Isiah Steward and a 17-year-old male charged as an adult, both facing murder and firearms charges. A privately made ghost gun recovered during a separate illegal firearms probe was the key link to the fatal shooting.

If anyone has information about Dylan, the shooting that night, or the events leading up to it, please come forward.