On the afternoon of March 16, 2020, gunfire erupted on a residential street in Southeast Baltimore. Twenty-eight-year-old Sergio Jones, a resident of South Bouldin Street, was found in the 400 block of South Lehigh Street with multiple gunshot wounds, including a wound to the back of his head. He died at the scene; an autopsy later recorded seven gunshot wounds and listed internal bleeding as the cause of death. Witnesses described the shooter as a tall, light-skinned male with dark hair who fled in a white car with tinted windows.

Baltimore police arrested two men soon after the killing. Nineteen-year-old Jerry Cruz was arrested the day after the shooting and later admitted to being the getaway driver, naming 19-year-old Ulises Lopez as the shooter. Cruz pleaded guilty to accessory to first-degree murder in exchange for his testimony against Lopez. Surveillance footage from a nearby home reportedly captured the entire incident and was significant to the case.

Ulises Lopez was tried by a jury and convicted of second-degree murder and multiple firearm offenses for Jones’s death. If anyone knew Sergio, saw activity on South Lehigh Street that afternoon, or has information about the shooting, please share what is known.