Walter Paige Jr., a 48-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on November 30, 2018, around 1:34 p.m. in the 5400 block of Reisterstown Road in Baltimore. An officer was flagged down and found Paige in the driver’s seat of a parked car with a gunshot wound; he was taken to Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead.

Court documents describe a verbal argument between Paige and a man identified as Karl Peck that escalated into a physical altercation. An unidentified Black male joined Peck in assaulting Paige. A witness heard a gunshot during the struggle; Peck and the unidentified man then fled on foot. Surveillance video captured the incident in the parking lot. Peck claimed Paige had retrieved a knife and swung it at him.

Karl Peck was arrested and later convicted of involuntary manslaughter; he received a 10-year sentence for manslaughter plus a consecutive 20-year term with all but 13 years suspended, followed by five years of supervised probation. The masked man who fired the fatal shot has not been identified. Does anyone have information about the masked shooter or the events in that parking lot?