On the night of April 14, 2018, 22-year-old Marques Lee Patterson was fatally shot in Baltimore. Around 11:30 PM, gunfire broke out and Patterson ran toward a nearby home seeking cover; both he and 65-year-old Pinky Louise Ruffin were hit and later died of their wounds at hospitals. The incident occurred amid a weekend of multiple shootings across the city.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa spoke to the media after the incident, saying investigators had some leads and believed the shooting was not random and that those involved knew one another.