Joey Dimitris Rascoe, a 38-year-old man from Baltimore, Maryland, was killed on June 20, 2018, in a shooting that left his name added to the city’s running toll of that year’s homicides. Public listings of Baltimore’s 2018 homicide victims place the incident on the 3200 block of Clarence Avenue, recording him simply as a shooting victim on that date.
Away from the blunt language of crime summaries, his funeral notice paints a fuller portrait of who was lost.
It reports that he was born in Baltimore on November 6, 1979, raised in church, and introduced to faith early in life—details offered not as headlines, but as the pieces of a personal history his family wanted remembered when the rest of the world might only register a name and a date.
What happened on Clarence Avenue is not described in detail in the publicly accessible sources that mention him by name. The available records establish the date, the city, and the manner of death as gun violence, but they do not publicly identify a suspect, provide a narrative of the moments leading up to the shooting, or describe the circumstances of the attack beyond classifying it as a homicide by shooting.
In those same accessible sources, there is also no reporting of an arrest, no named defendant, and no publicly documented court path—no charges listed, no trial date to follow, no conviction to mark an ending. In the public record visible here, Joey Rascoe’s death remains a tragedy recorded in fragments: a life story preserved by those who loved him, and a violent end logged by date and place, without a publicly identified person held accountable.
