Lawrence Banks was 17 when he was shot and killed on November 19, 1991, in Baltimore. By that fall he and his sister had left their father’s home after accusing him of brutal abuse; Lawrence was staying in a foster setting and still recovering from a broken leg that left him moving slowly and painfully. His father arrived at the foster home that day looking for him. A chase followed through rooms and hallways; Lawrence, hobbling, ran toward an alarm system but became trapped in a kitchen corner where his father shot him as he crouched.

Hours earlier the same father had fatally shot another man, Michael Chisholm, in a separate incident. Prosecutors pursued both killings, but witness and evidence problems affected the prosecutions. The father entered a no contest plea to second-degree murder in Lawrence’s death and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Chisholm’s killing; the court imposed two concurrent 20-year terms, and the father was released in October 2002.

If anyone knew Lawrence, his movements that fall, or has information about what happened that night, please come forward.