Seventeen-year-old Bowie High School student Joshua Salvador was shot on January 23, 2021, in Bowie after a dispute, and later died of his injuries. Friends driving him to a hospital placed a 911 call; emergency crews intercepted the vehicle and transported him to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he succumbed to his wounds. Prince George’s County detectives located the shooting scene on Laurel Bowie Road.

Within days investigators identified 18-year-old Marquet Holmes Jr. of District Heights as a suspect and arrested him on charges including first- and second-degree murder and related counts; he was held at the Department of Corrections without bond.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Laurel Bowie Road or has information about the dispute that preceded it, please come forward.