On Halloween afternoon, October 31, 2018, 33-year-old Leonard Shelley, a Black man, was fatally shot in Baltimore, Maryland. The shooting occurred at about 2:15 p.m. in the 200 block of North Monastery Avenue. According to police reports and surveillance footage, two armed men chased Shelley into a local market where they shot him multiple times; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators tied the killing to a violent Baltimore gang known as NFL. Authorities say a bounty had been placed on Shelley’s life and that a co-conspirator solicited Darran Malik Butler to carry out the murder so the gang could collect the reward. Butler posted a photo on Instagram showing money he claimed to have received after the shooting. Other men identified in connection with the homicide include D’Andre Preston.