Sheamon Pearlie was 20 when he was shot and killed in Baltimore on January 1, 2017. Officers on patrol in the 1800 block of West Fayette Street heard gunfire around 3:15 p.m.; they found Pearlie with a gunshot wound to his upper body and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The killing was one of the city’s first homicides that year.

The loss reverberated through Pearlie’s family and neighborhood. Just over a year later, his younger brother, 18-year-old Damon Jamal Perlie, was also fatally shot a few blocks from where Sheamon was killed.

If anyone has information about Sheamon Pearlie’s death or the events on West Fayette Street that afternoon, please come forward to help his family find answers.