On December 22, 2019, Carmen Rodriguez, 36, was working at her family’s Kim’s Deli and Grocery on North Kenwood Avenue in Baltimore just before 5:30 p.m. Surveillance footage shows one man enter and case the store, then a second man enter armed with a handgun. The armed man approached the counter, demanded money and fired a single, fatal shot to Rodriguez’s head. Her children were in the store and witnessed the shooting. Emergency responders pronounced Rodriguez dead at the scene.

Investigators identified two suspects. In January 2020 Terrance Peterson, then 29, turned himself in. In February 2020 police arrested 39-year-old Martin Brooks and identified him as the shooter; both were charged with murder, armed robbery and firearms offenses. Brooks’s record included a prior murder charge that had been dropped and a conviction for armed robbery.

Does anyone who knew Carmen or who was in that neighborhood that evening have information that could help explain what led to the robbery and shooting?