Brandon Tucker, 43, was fatally shot in Baltimore on the evening of July 14, 2024. Police responded to a report of a shooting on the 1700 block of North Carey Street around 10:40 p.m.; Tucker was found with a gunshot wound to the head, taken to a local hospital in critical condition, and died on July 18.

Tucker had worked briefly as a violence interrupter with the Penn-North Safe Streets site from April until mid-May 2024. The shooting occurred just blocks from that former workplace, inside the Penn-North Safe Streets zone. Western District Shooting detectives from the Baltimore Police Department are investigating. As of late July 2024, no suspects had been publicly identified and no motive announced.

If anyone was in the Penn-North Safe Streets area on the night of July 14 or has information about the shooting, please contact the investigators handling the case.