Herbert Allen is a name tied to multiple deaths around Baltimore, but one incident stands out as a homicide. A 44-year-old Herbert Allen was fatally shot on January 20, 2017.

Other men named Herbert Allen in the region appear to have died of nonviolent causes: one born April 1, 1953, died December 9, 2005, at age 52 and was remembered as a husband and father of three; another, Herbert Henderson Allen of Fort Washington, died March 10, 2019, at 79 and was memorialized with funeral services. Those deaths are described in obituaries rather than as criminal investigations.

The overlapping reports under the same name complicate efforts to follow a single narrative. If anyone knew the 44-year-old Herbert Allen or has information about the January 20, 2017 shooting, please share what is known.