Ceasar Bolabo, a 51-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was shot late on the night of September 8, 2008, at his home on the 9300 block of Snowhill Estates Lane in Laurel, Maryland. The shooting happened in his garage around 10:30 p.m., turning an ordinary suburban routine into a sudden, violent emergency as help was summoned and the scene filled with responding officers and medics.
In the days that followed, the incident remained shadowy in public accounts: the setting was described, the timing was pinned down, but the “why” and “who” stayed out of reach. What is clear from the available public summaries is that the gunshot wounds were severe enough that he did not die immediately. Instead, he lived for more than a week after the attack, the gap between the shooting and his death marking a stretch of uncertainty and waiting for those who knew him.
Ceasar Bolabo ultimately died on September 19, 2008, with the death time reported as 2:49 p.m. In retrospective listings of gun-violence victims, his death is linked back to the September 8 shooting in Laurel, compressing the story into a single date even though the fatal outcome came later, after that intervening period.
As for accountability, the accessible public material tied to this case does not identify any arrested person, named suspect, filed charge, or later court outcome connected to the shooting. The brief case-style entry that survives online focuses on the basic facts—where he was, when he was shot, and that the location was his garage—without extending into the kinds of details that usually appear when police announce a suspect, an arrest, or a prosecution.
