Hyattsville 20-year-old faces life in prison after first-degree murder conviction

May 20, 2026 3:53 p.m.

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A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury found a 20-year-old Hyattsville man guilty of first-degree murder, among other charges, on Monday in the 2025 fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Montgomery Village man, according to a Tuesday statement from the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s office.

Jorden Hungerford, 20, now faces life in prison plus 60 years, after being convicted of first-degree murder, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Zeke Starr, Hungerford’s attorney, told Bethesda Today in a statement that the jury convicted Hungerford “for his co-defendant’s actions via the antiquated legal principle of felony murder, a concept that scholars have criticized as inequitable and draconian.”

Felony murder is when someone who is accused of committing a violent felony is charged with murder because the act of the felony results in someone’s death, according to the Cornell Law School legal information institute.

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The conviction stems from the April 26, 2025, incident in which 20-year-old Henry Krishawn Gilbert was found in a green Honda Civic, shot in the head “execution style,” according to the state’s attorney’s office.

The Civic had struck a curb in 9800 block of Brookridge Court in Gaithersburg and the engine was still running when police arrived on scene just after 11:50 a.m., Montgomery County police said at the time. A man later identified as Gilbert, was found dead in the car. Police later determined that Gilbert had been shot before crashing.

The state’s attorney’s office said Tuesday that an investigation found that Hungerford “posed as a female friend of the victim” on social media and lured him to the location in Gaithersburg to buy $70 worth of marijuana.

Hungerford and his co-defendant Demari Brown, 21, of Montgomery Village arrived at Brookridge Court where they robbed and shot Gilbert. Brown pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and is scheduled to be sentenced in September. Brown was picked up by U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force less than two weeks after the incident and days later Hungerford went to the Rockville City Police Department to turn himself in, according to police reports at the time.

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Originally published at Bethesdamagazine