Sheamon Jr. Perlie was 20 when he was shot and killed in Baltimore on January 1, 2017. Officers on patrol heard gunfire around 3:15 p.m. on the 1800 block of West Fayette Street and found Perlie with a gunshot wound to his upper body; he was pronounced dead at the scene. His death was recorded as the city’s first homicide of 2017.

Police made a public appeal for information after the shooting but reported few leads and did not identify any suspects. A year later, his younger brother Damon Jamal Perlie was also killed in the same neighborhood. No arrests or suspect identifications have been publicly announced in Sheamon Jr. Perlie’s killing.

If anyone knew Sheamon Jr., saw or heard anything on West Fayette Street that afternoon, please come forward with information.