Rodney Smith was 26 when he was shot and killed on the evening of December 5, 2013, in Baltimore’s Central Park Heights neighborhood. Police say the shooting occurred in the 3300 block of Virginia Avenue; investigators later searched an alley and a nearby yard. Officers found him down in the alley and he was pronounced dead at 8:07 p.m. after being shot in the back at about 6:58 p.m.

Reports describe few confirmed facts beyond the time, place, and direction of the wound. No widely reported arrest or publicly identified suspect has been connected to the killing, and motive remains unknown. If anyone was with him that night or saw what happened near Virginia Avenue, please come forward with information that could help solve Rodney Smith’s death.