Leedell Brown, 25, was beaten inside the Hot Spot Lounge in downtown Baltimore just before midnight on February 23, 2015. Police were called to the Guilford Avenue nightclub for reports of a fight and found Brown gravely injured; he was taken to a nearby hospital and later died of his injuries. He was a father and an active participant in the lounge’s open mic nights, performing as the rapper Mamu and having taken up rapping about four years earlier to bring positivity into his life.

Baltimore Police opened a homicide investigation. No arrests were announced; in early June detectives released a sketch of a man described as a person of interest and asked the public for help identifying him. The Hot Spot Lounge was later reported to have closed over liquor law violations. Does anyone who attended the club that night or knew Leedell have information that could help bring his attackers to justice?