On the afternoon of Sunday, July 30, 2017, 24-year-old Donta Cook of Glen Burnie was found outside Sooner’s Tavern on Hazel Avenue in Baltimore suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel took him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Baltimore Police Department’s homicide unit investigated and believed the shooting was not random, citing prior altercations between Cook and his assailant.

The case remains listed among the city’s unsolved homicides. Few details beyond the scene, Cook’s transport to the hospital, and investigators’ view that the attack followed earlier conflict have been publicly disclosed.