Cheryl McCormack was 51 and from Nottingham. A trained paralegal, mother of three and a grandmother, she had been doing DoorDash deliveries for extra income after losing her job during the pandemic. Family described her as the rock who held them together.

In the early hours of January 24, 2022, McCormack was waiting in a disabled car in the 3900 block of White Avenue in northeast Baltimore while her friend walked off to find gas. The friend was accosted by two young men, one of whom displayed a gun and robbed him. The men forced the friend back to the car and demanded McCormack’s phone and purse; when she refused, one of the suspects shot her. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Surveillance footage and a gas-station camera helped identify two teens, and a 16-year-old turned himself in on February 23, 2022; a second 16-year-old was arrested March 8, 2022. Both were charged with first-degree murder, but on February 6, 2023, prosecutors entered a nolle prosequi after the sole surviving eyewitness, McCormack’s friend, had died. With the charges dismissed, the killing remained unsolved as of February 2023.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Baltimore police at 410-396-2100 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7LOCKUP.