A welfare check in the late hours of Sunday, March 5, 2023, brought Montgomery County police to a car parked in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in downtown Silver Spring. Inside officers found 23-year-old Deandre Keith Ellis with a fatal gunshot wound. An autopsy confirmed Ellis’s death was a homicide caused by a gunshot wound.

Investigators quickly identified four suspects. On March 14, 2023, two 22-year-old men from Capitol Heights, Kajohn McCombs and Ahmahd McCombs, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and held without bond; officers reportedly found Kajohn McCombs’s cell phone inside the victim’s car. Warrants were later issued on October 19, 2023, for 21-year-old D’Andre Lukes and 24-year-old D’Angelo Holley. Lukes was arrested in Drums, Pennsylvania, on November 9, 2023, and was awaiting extradition to Montgomery County.

Holley was arrested in Montgomery County on February 5, 2024, and has been charged with first-degree murder and held without bond along with the other three suspects.

If anyone has information about Ellis or his movements on March 5, 2023, please share what you know.