A dispute over a car in Hyattsville, Maryland, ended with police fatally shooting 29-year-old Brook T. Genet after a prolonged standoff. The incident began the evening of August 4, 2008, when officers responded to reports of gunfire at an apartment complex on Toledo Terrace and a caller said Genet had shot at him. Genet barricaded himself in his ground-floor apartment, sporadically fired at officers, and used a mattress to shield a window.

After about seven hours, a special operations team used armored vehicles and a camera-equipped robot to breach the apartment. In the early hours of August 5, Genet emerged from a window armed with a small-caliber semiautomatic handgun and attempted to flee; officers ordered him to stop and then fired when he did not comply. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Officers were placed on administrative leave; authorities said force was used after other options were exhausted.

If anyone witnessed the standoff or has information about the events that night, please come forward.