On September 1, 2018, at about 10:13 p.m., a shooting on the unit block of North Catherine Street in Baltimore left two men wounded. A 25-year-old sustained non-life-threatening injuries; Howard Wesley Dorsey, then 65, was critically wounded and transported to a hospital. Dorsey lived with the effects of those injuries for five years.

Howard Wesley Dorsey died on October 1, 2023, at age 70. An autopsy at the Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death a homicide on November 30, 2023, attributing it directly to the gunshot wounds he suffered in 2018.

If anyone has information about the September 2018 shooting on North Catherine Street or Dorsey’s subsequent care and challenges, please come forward.