Edward Toatley, a 37-year-old Maryland State Trooper with 16 years of service and president of the Coalition of Black Maryland State Troopers, was killed while working undercover on the evening of October 30, 2000. Deputized to take part in a joint federal and local narcotics task force, he sat in an unmarked vehicle in the 2000 block of Douglas Street NE in Washington, D.C., attempting to buy narcotics. After taking $3,500 from Toatley for a supposed crack cocaine sale, 23-year-old Kofi Orleans-Lindsay left the vehicle and returned moments later, opened the passenger door, and shot Toatley in the head at close range. Hidden cameras inside the vehicle recorded the shooting. Toatley was taken to a hospital and died about two hours later at 11:05 p.m.; he was posthumously promoted to Corporal.
Orleans-Lindsay, a Ghanaian immigrant then living in Silver Spring, fled on foot and was identified quickly as the primary suspect. Investigators recovered a keychain with his first name and a cigarette butt whose DNA matched him. After nearly two weeks on the run he was arrested in New York City on November 13, 2000, and extradited to Washington, D.C. On December 14, 2001, Orleans-Lindsay pleaded guilty to first-degree murder; in exchange prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, and he was sentenced to life without parole.
If anyone knew Toatley, his work with state and federal partners, or saw activity in the 2000 block of Douglas Street NE that night, what can be added to the record?