LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police in Washington D.C. are offering a large sum of money for the identity and conviction of a suspect accused of killing a Kentucky teacher.
According to a news release, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch need the public's help finding a suspect in a homicide that happened on July 5 on Catholic University's campus.
Officers said they responded to the campus on a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, they found 25-year-old Maxwell Emerson shot.
DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene and took Emerson to an area hospital where he eventually died from his injuries.
Police said the suspect was caught on surveillance cameras.
Maxwell's mom, Chandra Emerson, said the photos from the cameras are pretty clear and that "I feel like it will be easier for them to identify him."
Maxwell's brother and mother were in Washington, D.C. eating when the shooting happened.
"I looked at the first Snapchat again and I figured out what it said, which was, 'help, robbed at gunpoint,'" Chandra said.
An Oldham County Schools spokesperson said Emerson was in D.C. for a Library of Congress teacher development program.
"He was excited because he was going to teach law and justice next year, it was a new class, an elective class, and he was going to get to do that," Chandra said.
The Metropolitan Police Department is currently offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for Emerson's death.
"Is that going to help somebody to actually turn someone in? I don't know, I would hope," Chandra said.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at (202) 727-9099 or use their anonymous text tip line at 50411.
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