Kendall Batson, an 18-year-old senior at Wise High School from District Heights, Maryland, was fatally shot on May 11, 2023, in the North Forestville Elementary School parking lot on Ritchie Road. Authorities say the shooting occurred about 6:35 p.m. after an attempted carjacking; Batson was transported to a local hospital and died shortly after arrival. The next day would have been his last day of high school before graduation.

Charging documents say a group of friends, including two teens later arrested, gathered at the school that evening. Batson arrived with others in a Honda. One suspect, armed with a rifle, demanded the Honda keys and forced those occupants out. When suspects then tried to take Batson’s BMW, he resisted, struggled while trying to re-enter his car and was shot. Police recovered the two abandoned vehicles in Capitol Heights the following day and say Batson did not know the teens who were charged.

One 18-year-old, Lavelle Harris, and an unnamed 17-year-old were arrested the following month and held without bond on murder and carjacking-related charges. Did anyone see activity in the North Forestville lot that evening or know more about the people involved?