On the morning of Friday, February 10, 2023, police responded to a reported shooting on the 4100 block of Eierman Avenue in Baltimore. Officers found 44-year-old Melvin D. Cummings with apparent gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and was pronounced dead later that day. The Baltimore Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Witnesses told investigators two people dressed in all black and wearing face masks shot Cummings and then fled in a silver car. Detectives tracked that vehicle to the 7300 block of McClean Boulevard, where they saw someone cleaning the car before entering a nearby apartment. Facial recognition identified that person as Kevin Griggs, 31. Cell phone records placed both Griggs and a co-defendant, Michael Fisher, at the scene and along the rental car’s route.

Both men were arrested and charged in connection with Cummings’s killing. Griggs faces first-degree murder and multiple firearm charges; Fisher faces first-degree murder, firearm-use and conspiracy counts, and related weapons charges. The cases have experienced scheduling delays, including a postponed July 16, 2024 trial for Griggs after he dismissed his attorney; Fisher’s jury trial was set for October 28. Does anyone have information about Cummings or the events on Eierman Avenue that morning?