In the pre-dawn hours of September 18, 2019, 34-year-old Donte Ridgeley Butler was shot on a street in Northwest Baltimore. Officers responded to reports of gunfire around 1:45 a.m. in the 3400 block of Piedmont Avenue and found Butler with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Born August 7, 1985, in Towson and raised in the Gwynn Oak community, Butler was memorialized by family and friends at services on September 23 and 24, 2019, and buried at King Memorial Park in Windsor Mill. The Baltimore Police Department opened a homicide investigation and appealed to the public for information, but no arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified.

What details about that early-morning shooting or anyone who might have been in the area could help bring answers to Butler’s family?