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Diandre Barnes, 13, was shot and killed in the early hours of a June morning in 2016 on the 900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore. He was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center and pronounced dead. Investigators say Barnes was not the intended target; another person believed to be the actual target was wounded in the same incident.

Two days after the shooting, police located a suspect, Anthony Clark Jr., who fled and fired at officers before surrendering on a Fremont Avenue rooftop. A .40-caliber handgun recovered from Clark’s home was linked to the bullet that killed Barnes. Clark, also known by the nickname Trouble, was charged with second-degree murder and firearm use during a felony-violent crime. He was found guilty and sentenced to 90 years in prison in 2018, but an appeal over hearsay testimony and confrontation rights led the Court of Special Appeals to grant a new trial. By the retrial in July 2022 Clark had legally changed his name to Malik Shakur; at retrial the prosecution argued the fatal shot was deliberately planned while the defense said Shakur was the wrong suspect.

Did anyone in the neighborhood on Pennsylvania Avenue that June morning see or hear anything that could help clarify what happened?