Ronald Boone, a 21-year-old Black man from Baltimore, was shot on the afternoon of February 5, 2022, on the 3300 block of Kentucky Avenue in the Belair-Edison neighborhood. Police found him with multiple gunshot wounds just before 5 p.m.; he was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and pronounced dead.

Baltimore homicide detectives focused on a Toyota Yaris seen on surveillance footage from which a gunman fired. The department offered an $8,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Within weeks two teenagers were arrested and charged as adults: a 16-year-old on February 23, 2022, and a 14-year-old on March 3. The 14-year-old was identified in court filings as Costello Simms and was linked to the vehicle by a witness who picked him from a photo array; charges included first-degree murder and multiple handgun offenses.

Simms’s case moved through the courts and a trial was set for summer 2024; on July 26, 2024, he accepted a plea deal that resolved the murder charges. Does anyone have additional information about that afternoon on Kentucky Avenue or the Toyota Yaris seen in the area?