Ramel Keith Baker, a 30-year-old Black man, was fatally shot the night of August 17, 2014, near the Welcome Inn in the 8700 block of Loch Bend Drive in Parkville, Maryland. Police found him wounded in an alley near the motel just before 11 p.m.; he suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his back, arm and thigh and died after being taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

Investigators tied the killing to a dispute that had developed among Baker, brothers Pompey and Nathaniel Lawrence, and Jermell Lamont Foster. Testimony presented at trial described tensions tied to drug dealing around the motel and an altercation on the day of the shooting. Umar Hydeem Amin Foust later testified that he and the Lawrences and Foster reunited after a fight, that a gun was brought back to the Welcome Inn area, and that Foster fired as Baker allegedly threatened and then attacked with a knife.

All four men were arrested; Foust pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and agreed to testify for the prosecution. In September 2015 a jury convicted Foster, Pompey Lawrence and Nathaniel Lawrence of first-degree murder, conspiracy and a firearm offense; each received life with all but 50 years suspended and a 20-year concurrent sentence for the firearm charge. The convictions were affirmed on appeal in May 2017.

Does anyone have additional information about Baker’s activities around the Welcome Inn or witnesses to the August 17, 2014 confrontation?