On a September afternoon in 2018, 17-year-old Beontray Ellis was riding a green motor-bicycle in Baltimore when he was approached and shot multiple times by two men in the 1200 block of Druid Hill Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. Bystanders and a police officer tried to revive him, but Ellis was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Police charged two men, Brian Campbell, then 24, and Corey Shawn Smith, then 28, with first-degree murder and related firearm counts. Prosecutors at the March 2022 trial said the defendants conspired to kill Ellis, citing a distinctive tri-colored sweatshirt seen on Campbell’s social media and a recorded jailhouse call in which Smith allegedly bragged about the killing. The defense highlighted there were no fingerprints, DNA, or eyewitness identifications placing the shooters at the scene.

Both Campbell and Smith were convicted in 2022. In February 2023 their lawyers filed a motion for a new trial, asserting the defendants’ right to a public trial was violated when family and friends were allegedly denied entry to the courtroom at times; a judge was set to rule on that motion in May 2023.

Did anyone in Baltimore recognize the tri-colored sweatshirt or have information about the 1200 block of Druid Hill Avenue on September 28, 2018?