Sean Terrica Womack

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 ...