Chesley Patterson, 44, was shot and killed on January 23, 2022, after closing at La Scala, the Little Italy restaurant where he’d worked for 17 years. Surveillance shows Patterson stopping at a liquor store in Fells Point and returning to his car on the 1700 block of Eastern Avenue when a gold minivan pulled up and blocked his path. A man got out of the passenger seat, forced open Patterson’s car door and, after a brief struggle, fired a single shot into his chest. Patterson collapsed in the street and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

Investigators linked the attack to a series of robberies that night involving the same gold minivan. Police recovered fingerprints from the vehicle belonging to Samuel Wise Jr. and found texts on his cellphone in which he said he was out robbing. Authorities arrested Wise in April 2022; police say a second suspect was identified but killed before charges were filed.

Does anyone have information about Patterson’s final movements that night or about the vehicle linked to these robberies?