July 29, 2021
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This story was updated at 5:35 p.m. on July 29, 2021, to include an explanation of a way in which a person can be charged with murder in Maryland
The shooting happened as the two were trying to rob a man in an apartment building, according to Montgomery County police.
David Johnell Eggleston Jr., 25, of Oxon Hill, is accused of killing 25-year-old Patrick Davion Gafford on July 2 at a high-rise apartment building on Oak Leaf Drive, police said in a press release on Thursday.
Both men fired guns during the robbery, police said.
Gafford and Eggleston went to the apartment building on July 2 to rob a man, police spokesman Officer Rick Goodale told Bethesda Beat on Thursday.
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A coalition rally near the Moses Cemetery. | Kristian Berhost / People s World
BETHESDA, Md. Residents here used the occasion of Juneteenth celebrations, for the first time an official national holiday, to step up an ongoing struggle to stop the desecration of an African cemetery.
The Moses Cemetery is a place where freed Africans are buried, part of a tightly-knit Black enclave formed in the wake of the abolition of slavery in Maryland.
A coalition of activists had to be formed to save the cemetery after the arrival in 2017 of a company determined to build a self-storage facility on the site.
Several hundred members and supporters of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC), Macedonia Baptist Church, Claudia Jones School for Political Education, and speakers from local anti-racist organizations celebrated Juneteenth at the Moses African Cemetery on Saturday. The coalition, led by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, seeks to stop the desecration of the Cemetery and memorialize the fre