On the afternoon of December 13, 2025, 14-year-old Michael Roland Hitchens III was fatally shot in the 2500 block of Washington Boulevard in the Morrell Park neighborhood of South Baltimore. Michael had walked out of his home about ten minutes before the shooting and was chased down the street, witnesses said, before he ran into a nearby liquor store and was struck by gunfire around 3:00 p.m.

First responders found Michael with a gunshot wound and he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died a short time later. The Baltimore Police Department classified the death as a homicide and by late December 2025 had made no arrests. Investigators were reviewing security footage that captured people fleeing the scene and had appealed for witnesses.

If anyone saw the chase or the shooting in Morrell Park on December 13, or recognizes the people in the footage, please share what you know with investigators.