Morell Booze, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot in broad daylight on October 10, 2016, in northwest Baltimore’s Central Park Heights neighborhood. Police were summoned just after 2 p.m. to the 3700 block of Beehler Avenue near Beaufort Avenue and found him with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper and lower body. He was taken to a hospital in grave condition and died a short time later.

By the following day police had publicly identified Booze, and the death was being treated as a homicide. No arrests or suspects were announced in the immediate aftermath, and detectives appealed to neighbors and anyone who might have seen or heard anything to contact Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.

If anyone in Central Park Heights that afternoon has information about what happened or who might have been involved, please come forward to assist the investigation.