Man fatally shot in Brentwood, Prince George’s County police investigate

A man was found on the ground with a gunshot wound at 38th and Shepherd streets in Brentwood and died at the scene, putting a new public-safety concern squarely on one of Prince George’s County’s close-in communities. County police said officers were called there around 5 p.m. Friday, June 12, and investigators have not said what led to the shooting.

The location matters. Brentwood sits in northern Prince George’s County near the District of Columbia line, in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, where violent incidents can quickly affect people who move between neighborhoods, schools, transit corridors and nearby commercial areas. Police have said the circumstances remain under investigation.

For residents trying to understand whether the shooting signals a larger trend or a single act of violence, county crime data offers some background. Prince George’s County police maintain an open-data portal that includes reported crime incidents from February 2017 to the present, with addresses rounded for confidentiality. The department’s daily crime report also notes that its data covers crimes reported within PGPD’s primary jurisdiction and does not include crimes reported to municipal police departments.

County officials said in year-end 2025 reporting that violent crime, including homicides, declined compared with 2024. That broader drop does not answer what happened in Brentwood on Friday, but it does give investigators and residents a measurable benchmark as police determine whether the killing fits an isolated pattern or reflects something more persistent in the area.

Detectives are asking anyone with information to call 1-866-411-TIPS or submit a tip through the P3 Tips app. As investigators piece together the timeline around 38th and Shepherd streets, the immediate question for Brentwood remains the same: who was killed, why it happened and whether anyone else may be at risk.