Leon Cannady, a 36-year-old Black father of five who worked as a truck driver, was shot multiple times and died after a late-night road-rage encounter in northeast Baltimore. The shooting happened in the early hours of Sunday, April 28, 2013, on the 2800 block of Erdman Avenue; Cannady was taken to a hospital and died a short time later. Relatives said he was returning from a family gathering when a van struck his car and what began as an exchange—reported by family as an attempt to trade insurance information—escalated into gunfire.

Police said a witness who was riding with Cannady was not physically harmed and that investigators believed two men in a van were responsible. The family remembered Cannady as funny, compassionate, and a peacemaker. Investigators publicly appealed for help identifying and locating the two men tied to the incident; no arrests or named suspects were announced in the initial reports.

If anyone saw the incident on Erdman Avenue that night or knows who was in a van involved in a confrontation there, please come forward with information.