Engine shuts off when transmission is shifted into drive

I had an issue with my vehicle and I'm trying to determine if it was the transmission or at least narrow down what it could have been to try figuring out what needs doing. I was stopped at an intersection and as soon as I took my foot off the brake and hit the gas my engine cut out. My electric was fine and it was idling perfectly fine before that. I immediately turned the car off then restarted it and again everything was fine until I put into drive with the engine cutting off. It did the same and kept doing it consistently. It would remain in idle just fine or reverse but as soon as I hit or went past drive it would cut off. Ended up having to leave it where it was a couple days then went back to try again with daylight and it was fine. It's been parked with as little use as possible since. It's got gas and the fluids have been checked.