Howard Banks was a 45-year-old Black man who lived on Washington Boulevard in Baltimore, Maryland. On the night of Sunday, December 4, 2016, police found him and two other men—Antonio Davis, 23, and Thomas Carter, 42—shot to death inside a house in the 900 block of Bennett Place in West Baltimore. All three were pronounced dead at the scene.

Baltimore Police homicide detective Sean Suiter was the assigned primary investigator. Authorities, including the police commissioner at the time, publicly characterized the killings as not random and said the victims had tentative ties to the Black Guerilla Family gang, raising the possibility of retaliatory violence. No arrests had been announced and the case was open as of December 2016.

Anyone who knew Howard Banks or who has information about the Bennett Place killings is asked to contact Baltimore Police at (410) 396-2100 or leave an anonymous tip with Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.