On the night of May 31, 2015, a weekend cookout near Belair Road and Sinclair Lane in Baltimore ended in gunfire. Police found two men shot in the head; one was 22-year-old Ronnie Thomas III. Officers arrived on the 2000 block of Belair Road just after 1:00 a.m.

Ronnie was the son of Ronnie Thomas Jr., known as Skinny Suge, who was incarcerated at the time. The family had already lost another son, Najee Thomas, to a shooting 13 months earlier; that earlier killing also remained unsolved. In the year before his death, Ronnie III had been shot and wounded and later faced attempted murder charges that were dropped; he was released from jail in April 2015, about a month before the cookout shooting.

The May 2015 killings occurred during a month that saw 43 homicides in Baltimore, stretching the homicide unit’s resources. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced in Ronnie’s murder; the case went cold publicly. If anyone knew Ronnie, was at that cookout, or saw activity near Belair Road and Sinclair Lane that night, please share information with investigators.