Rusty Mark Edwards, 49, of Williamsport, Maryland, was fatally shot on July 18, 2024, just two days before his 50th birthday. Shortly before 1 p.m. Edwards was sitting with three others in a parked Kia Optima in the 200 block of East Washington Street in Hagerstown when two men on electric scooters approached. One man began arguing with the occupants, then pulled out a handgun and fired into the vehicle. A second man who had stopped nearby also drew a gun and shot at the car.

Edwards, seated as a passenger, got out and fired back at one of the shooters before returning to the Kia. He succumbed to his injuries at the scene. Another man in the car, 20-year-old Tiheen Justice Nathan Matthews, was wounded by a gunshot to the ear and treated at a local hospital and released. Hagerstown police used surveillance footage and witness interviews to identify the two shooters; one suspect, 24-year-old Brandon Lamont Hinton Jr. of Hagerstown, was arrested on July 23, 2024, while the search for the second man continued.

If anyone saw the incident on East Washington Street that afternoon or has information about the shooters, please come forward to the Hagerstown Police Department.