Martie A. Williams Jr. was a 20-year-old Black man from Baltimore who loved football, had played since age six for teams including Arbutus Golden Eagle, Westport, and Edmondson High School, and helped his father coach the Westport team. Remembered as a devoted son, brother and friend, he also enjoyed computer games and was raised Christian.

On the night of March 21, 2009, Williams was at a hangout house in the 2600 block of Maisel Street in Westport waiting to play video games when two men entered and shot him eight times with two different handguns, a .40 caliber and a .32 caliber. He died from the shooting.

Federal prosecutors later identified a man named Hall as a violent drug dealer who, they said at trial, along with another individual, shot Williams that night. A jury convicted Hall for his role in Williams’s murder and other violent crimes and he was sentenced to life in federal prison. The case is resolved.

Did anyone in Westport who knew Martie or was at that hangout house that night see something that has never been published?