Donte Lee, 28, was shot and killed on January 24, 2022, on the 2200 block of Ruskin Avenue in Baltimore. Officers arrived about 10:07 p.m. after reports of shots fired and found Lee suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. He is described as Black/African American.

Prosecutors say the shooting was an ambush: Lee and another person were parked when two men in black masks approached and opened fire. Lee reportedly fired back before being fatally struck; the other occupant escaped without physical injury. Two men, Daquan Hawks and Leonard Joyner, were arrested and charged, including first-degree murder. At trial the surviving victim testified for the prosecution while the defense attacked that witness’s credibility.

Both men were acquitted of the murder charges. Joyner was acquitted in February, and Hawks was found not guilty of murder in a separate trial concluded in August; Hawks was convicted of being a minor in possession of a firearm at the time of the shooting. Did anyone in the Ruskin Avenue area see or hear anything that night that could help fill gaps in the timeline?