A 1995 shooting on a West Baltimore street has now been counted as a homicide after its long-term consequences led to a later death. On July 21, 1995, Wallace Reid Allen, a Black male then aged 52, was shot in the 1600 block of West Lanvale Street. He survived but lived for 28 years with injuries from that encounter.

On August 2, 2023, Allen died at age 80. The Medical Examiner’s autopsy determined his death resulted from complications of the 1995 gunshot wounds, and the death was ruled a homicide. The case was added to the city’s official homicide count on November 29, 2023. No information about suspects, arrests, trials, or convictions in the 1995 shooting has been provided.

Did anyone who lived in that area in 1995 or who knew Wallace Reid Allen have information that could help explain what happened that day?