On the night of January 11, 2018, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, 25-year-old Marissa Joy Edmunds was fatally shot in the head inside an apartment at the University Green Apartments. A resident reported seeing two men in ski masks run from the complex and heard someone shout they’d been killed, which led to a 911 call. Officers found Edmunds deceased; her 26-year-old boyfriend, Maxwell Flynn, was shot in the chest and survived, and a 29-year-old man in the apartment had a graze wound to the head and also survived. Investigators said the two assailants, described as men in their late twenties, stole personal items and drugs from the victims.

In February 2018, 29-year-old Orlando L. Whitfield was arrested and charged with open murder, using a firearm in the commission of a felony, and three counts of armed robbery; he pleaded not guilty. Whitfield later faced an additional July 2018 charge for possession of a homemade knife and was released to house arrest on May 2, 2020, while awaiting trial.

If anyone has information about the second unidentified suspect or the night of the shooting, please share what is known.