On the night of August 21, 2019, 34-year-old Marvin Dessaure Jr. was found severely beaten on the 1800 block of Aisquith Street in Baltimore. The assault caused him to strike his head on the pavement and suffer catastrophic head trauma; he was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dessaure survived more than a year but died on January 1, 2021, from the blunt force injuries he had sustained. His death was ruled a homicide.

Authorities arrested 22-year-old Jayson Brown in connection with the attack. Brown admitted to the assault, saying he had acted after hearing neighborhood rumors that Dessaure had exposed himself to children; those allegations were described in court as street rumor. On November 15, 2022, Brown pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 40 years with all but ten years suspended, followed by five years of supervised probation. During sentencing Dessaure’s father delivered an impact statement and Brown apologized.

Did anyone in Baltimore at the time know Marvin Dessaure Jr. or have information about what happened that night?