Deontray Brown, 27, was fatally shot just after midnight on October 23, 2018, on the 4000 block of Brendan Avenue in Baltimore. Patrol officers found him with a gunshot wound to the chest and he was taken to a hospital, where the wound proved fatal. The shooting was treated as a homicide and was reported separately from another deadly late-night shooting in the city that same night.

Investigators did not announce any arrests or release a suspect description in those initial reports, and detectives appealed to the public for information through the homicide unit and Metro Crime Stoppers.

The known facts center on the place, time, and cause of death; why Brown was targeted and what led up to the shooting remain unclear. If anyone has information about the incident on Brendan Avenue that night, please contact the Baltimore homicide unit or Metro Crime Stoppers.