Kendal Fenwick was 24 and a father of three when he was shot in his backyard on the evening of November 9, 2015, in the 3500 block of Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore. He had been renovating a home and was building a fence to keep drug dealers off his property; reports say he ran away from the house while being fired upon, apparently to draw the danger away from his children who were inside. He was taken to Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead; his killing was recorded as Baltimore’s 295th homicide that year.

Investigators identified 21-year-old Devante Brim as a suspect after community tips and ballistic evidence linked the gun used in Fenwick’s murder to another shooting five days earlier for which Brim was already in custody. Brim was charged in December 2015; after a retrial process he later pleaded guilty and received lengthy prison sentences. The fence Fenwick began was completed by neighbors, and the city announced the block would be named after him.