Cumberland C. Richardson Jr., a 62-year-old Black man, was fatally shot and found in the 1600 block of West Lafayette Avenue in Baltimore on February 2, 2008. His death was one of 234 homicides recorded in the city that year and one of fourteen that occurred in January and February, underscoring a violent start to 2008.

Detective Mark Hughes was assigned to the investigation, but the case remains open and unsolved. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced, leaving Richardson’s family without closure and his killing among the cold cases handled by the Baltimore Police Department’s homicide division.

If anyone knew Cumberland Richardson Jr., or has information about the shooting on West Lafayette Avenue on February 2, 2008, please come forward.