Devante Smith was 25 when he was found on Mason Court in Southeast Baltimore with a gunshot wound to his torso on the afternoon of February 7, 2020. First responders took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Baltimore Police Department investigated the death as a homicide. Smith was Black/African American.

Investigators identified and arrested two men in connection with the killing: 18-year-old Donte Gregg and 58-year-old Gary Watkins. Prosecutors say an argument between Watkins and Smith preceded the shooting, that Watkins called Gregg and two other masked men to the 300 block of South Mason Court, and that the masked men fled in Watkins’ truck after the shooting. At trial in Baltimore City Circuit Court, the jury in May 2023 found Watkins guilty of second-degree murder and found Gregg not guilty of that charge. Watkins’ defense argued there was no evidence he had interacted with Smith; Gregg’s defense maintained he had no connection to the shooting and insisted he did not kill anyone.

If anyone knew Devante or saw activity on South Mason Court around February 7, 2020, can you help fill gaps in this timeline?