On the early morning of Labor Day, September 4, 2023, 27-year-old Caryn Faye Brown was found in the grass in front of an apartment complex in the 700 block of Gardens Court in Federalsburg, Maryland, with apparent gunshot wounds. Emergency medical services pronounced her dead at the scene. Brown was a mother of four and had recently taken steps to distance herself from a volatile four-year relationship with 26-year-old Quandre Lee Winder, the father of her two younger children. Police say Brown and Winder were involved in an ongoing relationship and that an altercation occurred at the time of the killing; officers had been called to a disagreement between them two weeks earlier on August 20, though no injuries were reported then.

A coordinated effort by the Maryland State Apprehension Team and Delaware State Police led to Winder’s arrest at a Seaford, Delaware, residence the morning of September 4. He was taken into custody without incident, charged with first- and second-degree murder and additional gun-related offenses, and held in Delaware awaiting extradition to Maryland. The Maryland State Police Homicide Unit continues to investigate.

If anyone has information about Caryn Brown or the events that night, please come forward to the investigators.