On the evening of December 29, 2009, Joseph Beatty, a 38-year-old Black man, was found around 9:15 p.m. in the 2300 block of Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore with gunshot injuries. Emergency responders took him to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he later died; the death was ruled a homicide by shooting.

No further details about how the shooting occurred have been released, and there is no public information about suspects or arrests in connection with Beatty’s death.

If anyone was in the 2300 block of Greenmount Avenue that night or has information about what happened to Joseph Beatty, please share what you know with investigators.