Howard County police released images today showing the suspected shooter from The Mall in Columbia on July 27. Detectives have been reviewing hundreds of hours of footage from the mall’s expansive camera system. Through this review, police say they have located images that may aid in identification though it is difficult to see much in the images and video.

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In March 2017, 17-year-old Christian Matthews was strangled in his family’s Silver Spring home during an attack by two men orchestrated by his older sister, Leaundra Matthews. One of the two men who killed Christian, Daniel “Ghost” Howard, 29, of Silver Spring, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison suspend all but 23 years to serve and five years of supervised probation upon release. Howard will receive credit for three  years served.

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