2 arrested in Oxon Hill fatal shooting months after killing

Police arrested two Washington, D.C., suspects nearly four months after Ricardo Lee Vance was shot dead on Oxon Hill Road, bringing a long-running homicide case one step closer to resolution.

Orlando Edwards, 20, and India Stroman, 21, were arrested Thursday in connection with the Feb. 3 shooting that killed Vance, 47, of Oxon Hill. The Prince George’s County Police Department said the case was handled by the Homicide Unit, with help from the Fugitive Unit, underscoring how much of the work in a murder investigation can continue long after the gunfire stops.

Investigators said Vance was found around 9:15 p.m. in the 6100 block of Oxon Hill Road suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police had previously offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information in the case, a sign that detectives were still pressing the public for help as they worked through leads in one of Oxon Hill’s most serious recent killings.

The arrests come as residents along the Oxon Hill corridor continue to absorb a pattern of deadly violence that has repeatedly sent police back into the same neighborhoods. In another 2025 Oxon Hill homicide, police later charged Daniel William Jackson, 45, of Washington, D.C., in the killing of Deon Damien Thomas, 31, also of Washington, D.C. That case, like Vance’s, drew close attention from homicide investigators and added to the sense that the area has been dealing with more than an isolated tragedy.

For neighbors, the broader concern is not only who was arrested, but whether the violence is connected and what police can do to prevent the next shooting. Recent cases in Oxon Hill have prompted public appeals for tips and, in at least one instance, surveillance video releases as investigators asked the community to help identify suspects. The repeated calls for assistance show how central witness cooperation has become to solving the killings.

The latest arrests may ease one part of the pressure on police, but they also leave open a larger public safety test for Oxon Hill: whether the county can break a cycle of fatal shootings on streets where residents have already seen too many crime scenes.