On the afternoon of Friday, September 6, 2019, 19-year-old Kawontay Witherspoon was shot and killed in central Baltimore. The shooting occurred about 1:47 PM at 400 W. Preston Street. Emergency responders treated him, but he succumbed to his injuries.

Witherspoon was a Black male and his death was counted among Baltimore’s 2019 homicides. An obituary and funeral notices were published in the days after, as family and friends mourned. No public reports name a suspect or describe arrests, and officials have not released a motive or detailed circumstances leading up to the shooting.

If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon at 400 W. Preston Street, please come forward to help the family find answers.