Andre Antonio Felder, a 22-year-old man from Oxon Hill, Maryland, was shot in the early hours of June 3, 2006, in the 900 block of Marcy Avenue. The first public accounts described him only as an unidentified man who had been fatally shot around 2:15 a.m., a sudden, violent end to a night that had stretched into morning on a quiet residential block.
The scene unfolded in a pocket of Oxon Hill close to the D.C.
line, a block that sits near Glassmanor Elementary School and not far from a district police headquarters—places associated with routine and safety, now briefly defined by flashing lights and an active homicide investigation. In the days that followed, police identified the victim as Andre Antonio Felder, tying the crime back to a name, a family, and a life rooted in the same neighborhood where the gunfire erupted.
Public reporting from that period did not name a suspect or describe any arrest tied to Felder’s killing, and the available contemporaneous summaries focused on the basic facts: the time, the location, and the fatal shooting itself. In other words, the story that reached the public was a thin outline—enough to mark the loss, but not enough to explain who did it or why, leaving the unanswered parts to linger beyond the initial headlines.
A funeral notice published soon after placed Felder within the circle of people who loved him: he was remembered as the beloved son of Nancy and Samuel L. Felder, Sr., with surviving family including a brother, grandmother, and extended relatives and friends. The notice reported his death as occurring on Sunday, June 4, 2006, a detail that can happen in shootings straddling midnight hours and hospital timelines, and it announced services at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., with interment at Harmony Memorial Park.
