Sherman Reed Jr., 31, was shot to death inside his home on the 3800 block of West Patapsco Avenue in the Violetville neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore on a Thursday evening in August 2019. Police who answered a call found him with a gunshot wound to the head; he was pronounced dead at the scene. No arrests had been announced and the investigation remained ongoing.

Family members remembered Reed Jr. as funny and life-loving, and as a devoted father to an 8-year-old son; a GoFundMe was started to help his child. His death was one of two homicides in Baltimore that day, a detail his father cited when speaking about the city’s struggle with gun violence.

If anyone knew Sherman Reed Jr. or has information about the shooting, please come forward with what can help the investigation.