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Dontae Joshep Johnson, a 30-year-old Black man, was found with a fatal gunshot wound in an alley in the 1000 block of Appleton Street in West Baltimore on the evening before Thanksgiving 2021. Investigators recovered 28 nine-millimeter shell casings, bullet fragments, and a projectile at the scene.

Video footage showed a minivan pull up shortly before the shooting; three people exited, entered the alley, then ran back to the vehicle and fled. Detectives tracked that minivan days later. The driver, later identified as 27-year-old Kemonta Johnson (not related to the victim), tried to flee and discard a firearm in a dumpster before being detained by specialized auto theft detectives. DNA from the recovered gun matched Kemonta Johnson, and ballistics testing linked the casings at the scene to that weapon. He was arrested March 11, 2023, and charged with first-degree murder; the case was tried before Judge Althea M. Handy.

Are there witnesses or anyone with video who saw the minivan or activity in the Appleton Street area that night?