Sean Terrica Womack, a 22-year-old Black man, was killed in Baltimore, Maryland, on the evening of July 19, 2016, in a burst of gunfire that left the neighborhood’s summer light turning suddenly urgent and afraid. Just after 6:00 p.m., police were called to Elgin Avenue near North Longwood Street, about two blocks south of Hanlon Park, where an adult male had been shot and was bleeding from multiple wounds.
As officers and medics moved in, investigators determined the violence hadn’t actually happened where the call first drew them. The shooting, police said, took place on North Rosedale Street by Windsor Avenue, and the wounded man—identified by police as Sean Womack—was rushed to Sinai Hospital. Despite the scramble to save him, he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving.
In the hours that followed, homicide detectives took over, treating the scene as a murder investigation and asking the public for help in the way Baltimore so often does after a life is taken: with phone numbers, tip lines, and the hope that somebody saw something they haven’t yet said out loud. Police urged anyone with information to contact detectives directly, and offered an anonymous route through Metro Crime Stoppers.
Public reporting about the case does not describe any identified suspect, and no arrests or charges connected to Womack’s killing are mentioned in the available coverage reviewed here. What remains, in print at least, is the outline of a last evening—an urgent call, a short ride to the hospital, and a homicide file opened with answers still out of reach.
