Taniya Gray was 23 and a mother when she was killed on the morning of Sunday, May 11, 2025 — a day that was both Mother’s Day and her birthday. She had been preparing to leave her Southwest Baltimore home for a spa outing with a close friend when gunfire ended her life. A neighbor in the 4100 block of Mountwood Road heard shots around 10:40 a.m., then found Gray unresponsive in the backseat of a white Acura that had rolled into her parked car. Gray suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

Investigators quickly treated the death as a homicide. Charging documents say surveillance footage shows a Kia Sorento pulling up behind Gray’s Acura as she was getting in; a man exited the Sorento, shot Gray, then returned to the Sorento after someone moved from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat. License plate readers led detectives to a woman who identified her son as Tamal Johnson; cellphone data allegedly placed Johnson’s phone in the area for more than six hours before the shooting and leaving shortly after. Johnson, 22, was arrested May 22, 2025, and charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and firearm offenses; he was held without bail.

If anyone knew Taniya or has information about her movements that morning, please share what is known.