On December 15, 2023, at about 5:35 p.m., Marvin Jason Jackson Jr., 26, was shot in the neck in the 1800 block of Aiken Street in Baltimore’s Oliver neighborhood. Officers responded after a ShotSpotter alert and EMS took Jackson to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:00 p.m.

Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators shows two men exiting a white 2020 Volkswagen Passat and approaching Jackson. The recording reportedly shows one man shooting Jackson with a handgun fitted with a laser sight, then searching his pockets, while the other man picks up an item near Jackson’s body. The shooting is described as stemming from a drug transaction that went wrong; one of the men later told detectives he had gone to buy drugs from Jackson.

No sentencing date has been set for the accused. If anyone has information about Marvin, the people he associated with that day, or the incident on Aiken Street, please come forward.