On the afternoon of May 3, 2025, six-year-old Micah Comegys was found dead inside a house on the 800 block of Vine Street in the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore. Micah, a kindergartener at Mary E. Rodman Elementary School, had sustained a single gunshot wound. Officers who arrived about 2:45 p.m. found him alone in the residence with a firearm nearby; no one else was present at the scene.

Authorities are treating the death as questionable while investigators determine whether the gunshot was self-inflicted or involved another person. Investigators are focused on who owned the gun and whether it had been stored securely. The residence where Micah was found is not his home; he lived nearly three miles away in the St. Joseph’s neighborhood, and why he was at the Poppleton house remains to be explained. No suspects have been named and no arrests have been reported.

Family and neighbors described Micah as a boy with a big personality who loved telling jokes. The community has held a vigil and Baltimore City Public Schools provided crisis counseling at Mary E. Rodman Elementary. If anyone has information about Micah’s movements that afternoon or about the Poppleton residence, please come forward.