Malcolm King, a 41-year-old man from Silver Spring, Maryland, was fatally shot on August 6, 2026, during an encounter in the Landover area of Prince George’s County. Although initial descriptions of the incident referenced the Hyattsville area, subsequent police-based reporting identified King as a Silver Spring resident and placed the shooting in the 6900 block of Stoddert Lane in Landover. Prince George’s County police officers were dispatched to Stoddert Lane at approximately 4:40 p.m.
after receiving a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found King outside suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The investigation quickly focused on someone King knew. Detectives determined that the suspected gunman had fled following the shooting, but investigators developed information identifying Charles Glenroy Smellie Jr. of Forestville as the person believed responsible. Police said King and Smellie knew one another, and investigators’ preliminary conclusion was that the shooting grew out of an ongoing business-related dispute. Authorities did not publicly provide extensive details about the nature of that dispute or describe precisely what occurred between the two men immediately before the gunfire.
Within hours of King’s killing, Prince George’s County homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Smellie. The effort to locate him expanded beyond Prince George’s County, with the department’s Fugitive Unit working as part of the U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force. By the following morning, August 7, authorities located Smellie in the Baltimore area. What had begun as a homicide investigation in Landover then developed into a pursuit stretching north through Maryland.
Authorities pursued Smellie along Interstate 95 in Baltimore County and onto Maryland Route 152 in Harford County, eventually reaching the area near Aberdeen Proving Ground. When the pursuit ended near the installation’s gate, emergency personnel and law-enforcement officers found Smellie inside a white 2026 sedan. He had suffered what investigators preliminarily determined was a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead. Police emphasized that no Prince George’s County officers or Maryland State Police troopers fired their weapons during the incident. Smellie’s body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy, while Maryland State Police assumed responsibility for investigating the circumstances of his death.
Because Smellie died before officers could take him into custody, there was no arrest, prosecution, trial, or conviction in King’s killing. The arrest warrant obtained by homicide detectives was never executed through an actual custodial arrest. Prince George’s County police continued to investigate King’s death as a homicide, while Maryland State Police separately investigated Smellie’s apparent suicide. Authorities asked anyone with additional information about King’s killing to contact the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit and reference case number 26-0041818.
