On July 16, 2024, at about 5:41 p.m., police responded to a reported shooting on the 2400 block of Frederick Avenue in Baltimore. Officers found 20-year-old Theodore S. Burrell III, a Black male, with multiple life-threatening gunshot wounds. Paramedics took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.

The same incident injured two other men: an 18-year-old and a 23-year-old, both treated at area hospitals with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. Homicide detectives took over the investigation at the scene near the Westside Shopping Center. Authorities later charged two men, Bishop Chance, 18, and Gregory Whitfield, 19, with first-degree murder and other offenses in connection with Burrell’s death. Court filings allege the shooting was linked to a gang rivalry and say Chance and Whitfield were identified as members of the Monroe/Mosher organization who confronted Burrell and another person they believed were affiliated with YRN.

Prosecutors say surveillance footage identified a getaway vehicle, an Infiniti registered to Whitfield, and have cited cell phone data, social media interactions and monitored jail calls as part of their case; a judge denied a defense motion to suppress the phone data and records.