A late-night argument turned deadly in Federal Hill on December 28, 2025. At about 1:54 a.m. in the 1000 block of Light Street, officers found 32-year-old Charles D. Brothers, a Black male, unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound to his upper body. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene; the shooting occurred on his birthday.

Baltimore Police identified a suspect and on December 31, 2025 arrested 31-year-old Davahughn Johnson in the 500 block of Saint Paul Street. Johnson was charged with first-degree murder and taken to the Central Booking Intake Facility. The killing was reported to be the second homicide in the immediate area within two months and one of several in the neighborhood over the prior year, and it happened in a parking lot next to an elementary school.

If anyone witnessed the dispute in the Light Street parking lot or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.