Police investigate fatal shooting of woman in Prince George's park
A woman found shot in Oxon Run Community Park was identified as Juanita Frazier, a mother of three, as detectives hunt for who left her in the parking lot.
Police turned a late-night call in Oxon Run Community Park into a homicide investigation after finding a woman suffering from gunshot wounds in the Temple Hills park’s parking lot. Officers from the Prince George’s County Police Department and the Maryland-National Capital Park Police responded on April 28, 2026, at about 10:15 to 10:20 p.m. for an unresponsive female, then found trauma to her upper body. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators later identified the victim as 38-year-old Juanita Frazier of Washington, D.C. Police said the Homicide Unit is handling the case as a fatal shooting, and no suspect had been publicly identified in the early stages of the probe. No one was reported in custody.
The case number is 26-0022511, and Prince George’s County police said they are offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment. Tips can be routed through Crime Solvers, as detectives work to piece together what happened in the park’s parking lot and who may have seen the shooting or the movements before and after it.
Frazier’s killing has already sharpened the focus on a park that sits at 2600 Oxon Run Drive and spans just 7.578621 acres. Oxon Run Community Park is open from dawn to dusk, a familiar public space in a county that oversees more than 28,671 acres of parkland. That makes the homicide there stand out not just as a case file, but as a violent death in a place residents use for ordinary routines.
Friends and family described Frazier as a mother of three girls, including one daughter with special needs who will need extra support now that she is gone. The loss has added a painful human layer to an investigation still centered on the basics detectives need to solve: who shot her, why she was in the parking lot, and whether anyone saw or heard the attack.
Investigators have not said whether surveillance video, witnesses, or nearby homes produced any immediate leads. For now, the park’s parking lot is the key scene, the reward is on the table, and detectives are asking the public to help fill in the minutes that ended with Juanita Frazier dead in Oxon Run Community Park.
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