Detective Sean Suiter, 43, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in a vacant lot in Baltimore’s Harlem Park neighborhood after investigating a triple homicide. His service weapon was discovered underneath his body. He was taken to a hospital and died on November 16, 2017.

Baltimore police initially said Suiter had been killed in a struggle with an unknown assailant; a vague description of a Black male in a black jacket with a white stripe was released and a reward offered, but no suspect was identified and no arrests were made. Suiter’s partner reportedly took cover and called 911 on a cell phone rather than using a police radio.

Suiter had been scheduled to testify before a federal grand jury the day after his death in the Gun Trace Task Force corruption investigation, prompting speculation his death was timed to prevent testimony. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide; later reviews by an Independent Review Board and the Maryland State Police concluded Suiter had died by suicide, proposing he staged the scene to appear as a line-of-duty death. His family disputes that finding.

Did anyone in Harlem Park or within the department see or hear anything that night that hasn’t already been reported?