Jeffery Lamont Brooks Jr., 22, was killed in Baltimore in the spring of 2023 after an argument over about $300. A lifelong Baltimore resident and a U.S. Army Reservist, Brooks worked as a bus attendant and had plans to marry and advance his career. His family last heard from him on March 22, 2023; he didn’t show up for work the next day and was reported missing on March 23, 2023 after relatives said he had been in a fight with his roommate the previous night. His girlfriend found the apartment’s carpet wet when she checked on him.

Investigators focused on Brooks’s roommate, 24-year-old Markis Russell, who was taken into custody the day after the missing-person report. Russell gave a statement saying the dispute turned physical, that Brooks allegedly brandished a knife, and that he shot Brooks in the head. Police located Brooks’s body on the night of March 24, 2023 inside Brooks’s Subaru, which had been left behind a property on Harford Road; he had sustained a fatal gunshot wound. Brooks was born January 19, 2001, to Jacqueline and Jeffrey Lamont Brooks Sr.

The family remained active in the investigation. Does anyone with information about Brooks, his last movements, or the apartment on Mary Avenue in March 2023 have details to share?