In the early hours of a Saturday in June 2018, a passerby found 50-year-old Howard Vermont Blevins unresponsive on a sidewalk in the 1100 block of Sandy Stone Road in Essex, Maryland. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Baltimore County Police Homicide Unit investigators determined his death was not natural; he suffered significant trauma to his upper body and the cause of death was later confirmed as a gunshot wound.

Known as Mickey to friends, Blevins attended Golden Ring Junior High and Overlea High School and was a father to one son.

Did anyone in the Essex area know Howard Vermont Blevins or see anything the night he was found?