Detective Thomas G. Newman, 37, a twelve-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was ambushed and killed in the early morning of November 23, 2002. He was off-duty and leaving Joe’s Tavern in the 1000 block of Dundalk Avenue with his girlfriend at about 1:50 a.m. when two men approached and opened fire without warning. Newman was struck multiple times, continued to be fired upon after falling to the ground, and was later pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Investigators quickly tied the killing to retaliation. Newman had helped secure convictions in an earlier April 2001 shooting in which he had been wounded. One of the suspects in the murder was the half-brother of a man Newman had testified against. That relative, Raymond Saunders, reportedly spotted Newman at the tavern, left to gather two associates, Jovan House and Anthony Brown, and the three returned to carry out the attack. Within hours all three men were arrested; authorities identified House and Saunders as the shooters and Brown as the getaway driver who had passed along Newman’s location.

Does anyone have memories of Joe’s Tavern that night or information about Newman’s work in Dundalk that could shed light on the case?