In the early morning hours of August 7, 2016, Carlton Ray Morehead Jr., a 41-year-old Black male, was fatally shot in Baltimore, Maryland. The incident occurred around 5:10 a.m. in the 2500 block of East Madison Street.
Details surrounding the circumstances of the shooting remain scarce in public records. For years, the case showed little public progress and was considered a cold case by the Baltimore Police Department. The lack of immediate arrests or publicly identified suspects left a void in the narrative of Morehead's death.
A significant development in the case appeared in a public forum, where a commenter on a memorial page for Morehead indicated that an individual named Carlos Heard had been charged with his murder. However, official confirmation and detailed reports from law enforcement or mainstream news outlets regarding this specific charge have not been widely disseminated. The investigation into Carlton Ray Morehead Jr.'s death has been complicated by the passage of time and the subsequent high-profile death of his son, Tyree Moorehead, in a separate incident in 2022, which has often overshadowed the details of the elder Morehead's unsolved homicide.
