Xavier Antonio Starke

On a late afternoon in June, the quiet of a Baltimore neighborhood was shattered by gunfire. It was June 11, 2016, when police were called to the unit block of Shipley Street. There, they found Xavier Antonio Starke lying in the middle of the road. The 38-year-old male had been shot five times, and nine casings that all matched were scattered around the crime scene.

The investigation into the murder of Xavier, who was a resident of Curtis Bay, Maryland, continued for over a year. Witnesse ...