On a November evening in 2019, 31-year-old Jordan Taylor was shot and killed in his Clifton Avenue home in Baltimore while trying to block his door to protect his wife during a forced entry. The attackers used a crowbar to try to get into the residence and then fired multiple shots through the door, striking Taylor. He was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died. The intruders were attempting a robbery and later investigators determined they had targeted the wrong house.

The inquiry identified four people as suspects: Aaron Butler, Kahlil Madden, Donta Holdclaw, and Elease Frazier. Holdclaw died before his case reached trial, and charges against Frazier were dropped for lack of sufficient evidence. Butler and Madden were prosecuted: Butler pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, use of a firearm in a crime of violence, attempted armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit burglary and received a life sentence with all but 35 years suspended plus five years of supervised probation on release. Madden was convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit burglary and was sentenced to 40 years; prosecutors disclosed he was later charged with the alleged murder of a fellow inmate in August 2021 while incarcerated in connection with Taylor’s killing.

Did anyone in the Clifton Avenue neighborhood notice suspicious activity the night of the break-in or recognize anyone who might have been involved?