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Waddell Tate, a 97-year-old World War II veteran, was found murdered at his Darley Avenue home in East Baltimore on July 21, 2017. His daughter, Sylvia Swann, discovered him bloodied in his bedroom after he failed to answer his phone. The back door had been forcibly kicked in and an autopsy determined he died of blunt force trauma; investigators characterized the attack as a violent home invasion.

Neighbors recalled Tate, known to family as Pop Pop, as a quiet, mild-tempered man who had lived in that house for more than 60 years and had resisted moving after his wife Mary Ruth died. Nothing appeared to have been taken, and police said the motive remained unknown. No suspects have been publicly identified and the case is unsolved.

Did anyone in the neighborhood know Pop Pop or notice anything unusual that week?