On the night of December 1, 2020, 27-year-old Mikal James Mayo was shot and killed in the vestibule of his girlfriend’s apartment building in the 5500 block of Bowleys Lane in Baltimore. Police were called at about 10:22 p.m.; medics pronounced Mayo dead at the scene. A second person was also shot and survived. Investigators found evidence of a planned, targeted attack: at least sixteen rounds had been fired from no fewer than four different firearms. No eyewitnesses testified, but surveillance video showed a young man later identified as 19-year-old Khalil Cloude stumbling from the vestibule with a gun in his hand; Cloude had been wounded in the exchange and taken to a hospital.

Authorities arrested Cloude and charged him with first-degree murder and multiple firearms offenses. Mikal’s family described him at trial as a gifted student, talented athlete, and devoted father to his young son Noah, and his father watched the surveillance footage and called for justice. A jury found Cloude not guilty of first-degree murder but convicted him of second-degree murder and related firearms charges; a judge later imposed a prison sentence. Did anyone who knew Mikal or who was in the Bowleys Lane area that night see or hear anything that could shed more light on what happened?