A welfare check on Sunday, August 29, 2021, led police to the Brinkley Road apartment of 71-year-old Johnetta Wormley in Temple Hills, Maryland. Officers found Wormley unresponsive with significant trauma; she was pronounced dead at the scene and the death was ruled a homicide. Investigators reported that Wormley had been strangled and that her apartment appeared ransacked.

The Prince George’s County Police Department identified her 53-year-old son, John Frederick Carrington, as the primary suspect and issued a warrant charging him with first-degree murder. Carrington was described as armed and dangerous with no fixed address; he was arrested by a fugitive task force in Washington, D.C., on September 1, 2021, and was awaiting extradition to Prince George’s County.

If anyone knew Johnetta Wormley or has information about what happened in her Temple Hills apartment, please come forward with what you know.