Prather was found dead in a parking lot in Gaithersburg on Friday, and police quickly launched a homicide investigation after determining he had been killed, authorities said.
Officers responded to reports of an unresponsive person in a parking lot in the area of Lost Knife Road and Montgomery Village Avenue shortly before 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 2.
Prather was pronounced dead at the scene, and investigators later confirmed the death was being treated as a murder…