On a Friday afternoon in September 2022, 17-year-old Jeremiah Brogden, a junior and running back at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore, was shot multiple times during a confrontation with a student from another school as students were leaving at dismissal. School Resource Officers pursued and apprehended the shooter, later identified as 17-year-old Nizah Daniels, in a nearby neighborhood and recovered the firearm used in the shooting. Officers and medics performed CPR before Brogden was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died.

Brogden’s family described him as a devoted big brother, a loving son, and a talented football player. Prosecutors later charged Daniels with first-degree murder; surveillance footage, DNA evidence, and text messages were used during the prosecution. If anyone knew Jeremiah, was at Mergenthaler that afternoon, or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward.