Dasan Jones's mother filed her first petition for a protective order against Baltimore Police Officer Eric Banks Jr. on June 25, 2021 but Anne Arundel County District Court Judge Ronald Karasic denied that request. A judge granted a second petition, however, at a 3 p.m. hearing. Two hours later, Anne Arundel County police officers found Dasan's body "in a hole in the wall with a white covering leaning on it," upstairs in a loft in his stepfather's home. He was strangled. County police charged Banks with murder and child abuse.