Monte Jamar Baker, 23, was shot dead in the early morning hours of Sunday, December 7, 2025, at the Medusa nightclub on the 1400 block of St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland. Police and paramedics who responded to the scene found Baker and he was pronounced dead there. The Cleveland Division of Police Homicide Unit has opened an investigation into the killing.

Family and friends are mourning Baker’s death; an obituary confirms his date of death as December 7, 2025, and funeral arrangements include a viewing at Strowder’s Funeral Home and a service at Lee Memorial AME Church.

Did anyone who was at the Medusa nightclub that night see or hear anything that could help investigators?