Opinion ID: 2681023
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The murder of Bobby Ennels.

Text: Also, according to Edmonds’s testimony, Ennels was present at Barnes’s house on 14 October 2006 during the conversation in which Alexis admitted to shooting Brown the previous day. According to Edmonds, this conversation led Ennels to “freak[] out,” which, in turn, caused Alexis to worry that Ennels might “snitch.” Edmonds asserted to Alexis that Ennels would not do that. Approximately one month later, Alexis asked Edmonds if he thought Alexis should kill Ennels if Ennels tried to snitch. Edmonds reaffirmed his confidence in Ennels. Nevertheless, Alexis suggested that Edmonds get -4- Ennels drunk one night and in a car, pull up to a stop light, and let Alexis “do the rest.” Edmonds refused. On 3 October 2008, Alexis, while detained at the Prince George’s County Detention Center, called Deaundrey Shropshire, who was raised with the Alexis family and was the current roommate of Alexis’s brother, Rashadd. Alexis asked him, “What’s going on with my M?” Shropshire responded, “You still haven’t told me what you want me to do with that [guy].” 3 Three days later, on 6 October 2008, according to the State’s witness, Ms. Frances Lammons, Ennels, Anthony Cash, III, and Lammons drove to a location on Nalley Road in the County. Upon arrival, Ennels called someone and stated, “You all can come on down . . . .” Approximately two minutes later, two men approached the car. Lammons testified that one man was “brown skin[ned with a] short haircut,” and the second man was “brown skin[ned] with dreads.” According to Lammons, Ennels told the men, “You all don’t have to worry about nothing[;] It’s okay. It’s cool.” Whereupon, the man with the short haircut shot Ennels. Upon being shot, Ennels put the car into reverse and crashed into a tree. Lammons and Cash got out of the car and ran. Lammons was shot in the elbow while fleeing. Ennels was found dead in the driver’s seat of the car. Cash was found dead, as a result of gunshot wounds to the back, forearm, and knee, in the driveway of a nearby home at 406 Nalley Road. In a neighboring house at 404 Nalley Road, law enforcement 3 At trial, the State introduced an audiotape of this call. -5- officers found a black skull cap, which contained a mixed DNA profile. Analysts determined later that Alexis’s brother, Rashadd Alexis, was the major contributor to the DNA on the skullcap. Officer Juan Nolasco testified that, on the morning of the Ennels-Cash murders, around 1:00 AM, he observed two vehicles speeding from the area of Nalley Road where the bodies of Ennels and Cash were found later. The Officer stopped one of the vehicles, a Buick Regal, registered to Shropshire. The driver of the stopped vehicle was Rashadd Alexis, who, according to Officer Nolasco, was very nervous and appeared to have blood on his shirt. Rashadd Alexis was released at that time, pursuant to an order from a detective at the scene of the shooting. Shortly thereafter, while Lammons was in hospital, the Prince George’s County Police Department showed her a photographic array. She selected a picture of Barnes as someone who looked familiar to her and as a person that “resembled” a man present at the Nalley Road shootings. Lammons was shown a picture of Rashadd also, but could not identify or recognize him. As part of the investigation of Cash’s and Ennels’s murders, law enforcement officers discovered that the last call to Ennels’s cellular telephone before his murder was from a telephone number associated with a prepaid telephone purchased in Landover, approximately a mile from Rashadd Alexis’s house. Phone records disclosed that only thirteen telephone calls were made from this particular number. All thirteen calls were made to Ennels’s cellular telephone between 23 September 2008 and 7 October 2008, the day of Ennels’s murder. Additionally, law enforcement officers discovered that the calls -6- utilized cellular telephone towers located near Swan Terrace, where Rashadd Alexis’s and Petitioner’s aunt lived and a half mile from where Rashadd’s girlfriend lived.