Shawn Clayton Pressley Jr., 28, was found dead at noon on December 21, 2020, at 700 E Jeffrey St in Baltimore. He died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head; authorities classified the death as a homicide and determined he died at the scene.

Family remembered Shawn, known by nicknames Dink, Juvie, and Lil Shawn, as soft-spoken and devoted to his son. He graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in 2011 and had worked for FedEx and as a contractor for Johns Hopkins Medical Center. The killing has left his family and community grieving.

No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been reported and the investigation remains open. Anyone with information about Shawn’s murder is asked to come forward.