Tyrice Lor Scoota Watson was 23 when he was shot and killed in Baltimore on the evening of June 25, 2016. Moments after hosting a Pray For Peace in These Streets charity basketball game at Morgan State University, he was driving near Moravia Road and Harford Road around 7 p.m. An unidentified Black male wearing a white bandana stepped into the street and opened fire; Watson was struck and died at a local hospital shortly afterward. Watson was active in anti-violence efforts and had joined a city councilman on visits to local high schools to encourage students to stay in school.

Police treated the killing as retaliatory and linked it to a prior violent crime allegedly involving an associate of Watson. Eleven days later Watson’s manager, Trayvon Lee, was also fatally shot; investigators said the gun that killed Lee was not the same weapon used on Watson. Authorities later arrested Avery Walton in possession of the handgun that ballistics matched to Watson’s murder and named him a person of interest; Walton faced gun and drug charges. Police publicly identified another person of interest, 22-year-old Cortez Mitchell, who was killed in his vehicle in October 2016 before any charges were filed. No one has been convicted for Watson’s murder.