Akwalabeng Fontava, 29, a Black male, was found fatally shot inside his North Bethesda apartment on the morning of September 21, 2025. First responders were called around 7:40 a.m. to the 5900 block of Montrose Road, where officers discovered him with an apparent gunshot wound and pronounced him dead at the scene. Police quickly learned that two other people—a male friend and Fontava’s girlfriend—had been inside during the shooting. In the chaos that followed, they were forced at gunpoint
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