Chris Pennington, 32, was fatally shot on the afternoon of January 9, 2017, in the 2400 block of West Baltimore Street. Officers found Pennington about 2 p.m.; he was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries. Investigators described the killing as targeted, linked to a dispute dating to the summer of 2016 over an alleged robbery of a marijuana distributor.

Authorities connected the slaying to the Trained To Go gang. Dennis Pulley was identified as having solicited Pennington’s murder; Pennington was also known by the alias Magic. Law enforcement named Jamar Hinton as the person who carried out the shooting; Hinton was arrested on January 20, 2017, and charged with first-degree murder and related offenses. Federal prosecutors later charged Pulley in a racketeering conspiracy tied to the murder, drug trafficking and witness intimidation, and testimony at trial included recovery of the murder weapon from a co-defendant’s home.