On January 15, 2022, at about 10:25 p.m., police were called to the 2300 block of West Lanvale Street in West Baltimore after a report of a shooting. Officers found 36-year-old Tarone Thompson suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Friends and family remembered Thompson as someone who had been trying to improve his life, and his death prompted public expressions of grief and shock. Baltimore Police detectives later identified 37-year-old Davone McDaniels as a suspect. On March 7, 2022, McDaniels turned himself in and was charged with first-degree murder; he was ordered held without bail pending trial. The motive for the shooting was not released.

If anyone in West Baltimore that night saw something or has information about what led to Thompson’s killing, please come forward.