Gregory Antonio Wells, a 38-year-old Black man, was killed late on the night of April 23, 2025, in Annapolis, Maryland, in the Robinwood community. Police were drawn toward the 1300 block of Tyler Avenue after officers in the area reported hearing gunshots just after 11:00 p.m., and they found Wells suffering from gunshot wounds. Annapolis firefighters and responding officers tried to keep him alive long enough to reach definitive care, but he later died at the hospital.
By the next day, investigators said they had already identified a suspect and secured an arrest warrant. In early public updates, police named the suspect as William Delonte Hariston, a spelling that later reporting and subsequent police announcements rendered as William Hairston, and they emphasized that they were actively searching for him as the investigation moved forward. For weeks, the case lingered in that tense in-between—an identified suspect, a warrant in hand, and a city asked to keep its eyes open for any detail that might help bring the person they believed responsible into custody.
On June 5, 2025, Annapolis Police announced the search had ended with an arrest. They said William Hairston, 33, was taken into custody with assistance from the Prince George’s County Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service, and he was charged in connection with Wells’ homicide. The charges listed by police included first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, use of a firearm in a violent crime, and having a loaded handgun on his person. Police said he was being held without bond at the Jennifer Road Detention Center.
Public statements and news reports available about the case focused on Hairston as the lone named suspect; no additional suspects were publicly identified in those updates. Beyond the arrest and the filing of charges, the publicly shared accounts did not provide a detailed motive narrative, leaving the story’s center of gravity on that quiet stretch of Tyler Avenue, the sudden crack of gunfire, and the long aftermath that followed—first the urgent search, then the handcuffs, and finally the slow grind of a prosecution set in motion.
