Is this man's murder connected to a double assassination in Fort Washington, MD? In the early hours of a Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the life of 25-year-old Carl Ashton O'Neil Gray Fitzgerald was cut short by gunfire. On May 26, 2009, at approximately 12:23 a.m., Fitzgerald was shot and killed in the 1300 block of T Street, Northwest. The incident unfolded near the Pure Lounge nightclub, a place where he and his friends, who were part of a hip-hop group, would perform. That evening, however, friends noticed that Fitzgerald was unusually quiet and kept to himself.
The violence of that night did not end with Fitzgerald's death. Within an hour of the shooting in the District, a related tragedy struck in Fort Washington, Maryland. Fitzgerald's longtime friends, Audrey Bryant, 48, and her common-law husband, Keith Arness Jordan, 44, were fatally shot inside their home. Authorities quickly linked the two crime scenes, believing the killings were connected and describing the double homicide as a 'targeted assassination.'
Investigators found that a vehicle matching the description of one seen at both locations had been recovered.
In the year that followed the string of killings, the investigations into the three deaths continued, leaving family and friends in a painful state of uncertainty. While no one had been officially charged in any of the murders, there was a glimmer of a potential break in Fitzgerald's case. Members of Audrey Bryant's family revealed that Metropolitan Police had informed them that a man they believed to be a suspect in Fitzgerald's death had been apprehended on an unrelated gun charge.
Despite this development, the identity of a definitive suspect in the murder of Carl Fitzgerald and the subsequent killings of Audrey Bryant and Keith Jordan remained elusive to the public. The motive behind the violent events of that spring night also remained unclear. The Metropolitan Police Department has continued to seek the public's assistance in gathering information, offering a substantial reward for any tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Fitzgerald's death. The case, however, has grown cold over the years, with no further public announcements regarding arrests or suspects in his murder.
