Shante Authur

Just after midnight on August 11, 2014, Shante Authur, a 42-year-old man, was found on the 6000 block of Belair Road in Baltimore with multiple gunshot wounds. The call for help came in around 12:38 a.m., drawing officers into the dark, tense quiet that follows gunfire—when the street seems to hold its breath and neighbors listen from behind doors and window blinds.

He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but the damage was too severe, and he died from his injuries. Homicide detectives wer ...