Shawnna Spann, 28, was found with a gunshot wound to the head after police responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 2500 block of E. Biddle Street in East Baltimore on the night of May 7, 2020. She was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her death was one of two fatal shootings in the city that night.

Born November 17, 1991, in Baltimore, Spann grew up on the city’s east side, graduated from Mervo High School and earned an Associate’s degree from Baltimore City Community College. Family and friends remembered her as funny, outgoing and vivacious, with a memorable smile, but also introspective and analytical.

Baltimore police asked the public for help identifying those responsible and encouraged tips to detectives or Metro Crime Stoppers. No arrests or suspect identifications have been publicly announced. If anyone has information about what happened to Shawnna Spann, please contact the investigators or submit an anonymous tip.