On April 4, 2018, 21-year-old Justice Allen and her 43-year-old mother, Chanette Neal, were shot after assailants forced their way into the family home on Gorman Avenue in Baltimore. Both women were taken to separate area hospitals and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Baltimore police announced the attack was not random and said Neal and Allen were specifically targeted, though motive was not immediately clear. Investigators examined possible ties to other family members involved in criminal activity; Neal’s son Antoine Benjamin was an indicted member of the Black Guerilla Family and was incarcerated at the time of the killings. In March 2020 the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office offered a $25,000 reward and law enforcement distributed flyers and used billboards to seek tips.

In September 2024 a federal conviction resulted in a 38-year sentence for David Warren for his role in the deaths. Court documents say Warren and co-conspirators had gone to the Gorman Avenue home intending to kill a rival connected to a high-ranking gang member, and when the intended target was not there they instead killed Allen and Neal. Anyone with information about Justice Allen or that day is asked to come forward.